Below are the seminar schedules for the 2014-2015 academic year (Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Spring 2015)
Fall 2014
11/5/14
Dr. Kay Dewey
Food Supply vs. Healthy Diet Recommendations: What are the gaps?
Seminar Video
11/19/14
Dr. Charles Stephensen
Effect of newborn vitamin A supplementation on vaccine responses of Bangladeshi infants
Seminar Video
11/24 or 11/26/14
Kassandra Harding
Exploring Personal, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Factors that Influence the Health and Nutrition of Pregnant Women and Their Infants within the Context of a Community Health Program in Rural Bangladesh
Seminar Video
12/3/14
Dr. Leah Hibel, Human Development
Mother-child physiological co-regulation
Seminar Video
12/10/14
Dr. Maxwell Barffour
Malaria Incidence as a Function of Iron and Vitamin A Status: Evidence from a Study in Rural Zambian Children
Seminar Video
Fall 2014 Seminars not Recorded
10/8/14
Dr. Christine Stewart, Dr. Marjorie Haskell, Dr. Steve Vosti
Faculty Research Overviews
10/15/14
Dr. Bo Lonnerdal, Dr. Lindsay Allen, Dr. Kay Dewey
Faculty Research Overviews
10/22/14
Dr. Sonja Hess, Dr. Lucia Kaiser, Dr. Caroline Chantry, Dr. Betty Burri
Faculty Research Overviews
10/29/14
Jérôme Somé
Discussion of the paper entitled “Iron fortification adversely affects the gut microbiome, increases pathogen abundance and induces intestinal inflammation in Kenyan infants”, by Jaeggi et al. Gut 2014
11/12/14
Dr. Steve Vosti, Dr. Reina Engle-Stone and Dr. Justin Kagin
An Economic Optimization Tool for Micronutrient Interventions in Cameroon
Winter 2015
1/7/15
Amanda Crump, MS
Associate Director, Horticulture Innovation Lab
Integrating international nutrition and agriculture on the UC Davis campus
Seminar Video
1/28/15
Kara Bresnahan, PhD
MPH Candidate, UC Berkeley
From Deficiency to Toxicity? The Relationship between Indicators of Vitamin A Status and Interventions to Alleviate Deficiency in the Developing World
Seminar Video
2/4/15
Cassie Chandler, MPH
Technical Advisor, Freedom from Hunger
Microfinance and Health Protection - Linking Savings Groups to Health and Nutrition
Seminar Video
3/4/15
Susana Matias, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Nutrition
Effects of LNS on maternal outcomes during pregnancy: Results from the Rang-Din Nutrition Study
Seminar Video
3/11/15
Lucia Kaiser, PhD
Cooperative Extension Specialist, UC Davis
Revisiting the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Population: Update since 2009
Seminar Video
Winter 2015 Seminars not Recorded
1/14/15
Narine Yegiyan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Creating Effective Health Messages: The Motivated Cognition Approach
1/21/15
Mayra Gomez
MS Candidate, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology
Is it time for bed? Short sleep duration increases the risk of obesity in Mexican American children
2/25/15
Lauren Pincus
PhD Candidate, Department of Plant Sciences
Indigenous leafy greens in Uganda
Spring 2015
4/8/15
Audrie Lin
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
Environmental enteropathy & malnutrition: A multifaceted perspective
Seminar Video
4/15/15
Aifric O’Sullivan
Lecturer,School of Agriculture & Food Science, University College Dublin
Translating personalised nutrition research to personalised dietary advice
Seminar Video
4/22/15
Lacey Badiviez
Study Coordinator, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
How to get from recruitment to results: the nuts and bolts of coordinating the WHNRC’s Nutritional Phenotyping Study
Seminar Video
4/29/15
Thorkild Tylleskar
Professor, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen
Konzo – a toxiconutritional disease in Africa
Seminar Video
5/6/15
D’Ann Finley
Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
How to get your paper published in the best nutrition journals
Seminar Video
5/13/15
Muzi Na
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. International Health, John Hopkins University
A Behavior-based Household Food Insecurity Scale: Validity and Findings from Bangladesh and Zambia
Seminar Video
5/20/15
Deb Niemeier
Professor, Dept Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
The grass is always greener: Poultry trends in the developed and developing worlds
Seminar Video
5/27/15
Brietta Oaks
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. Nutrition, UC Davis
Associations of maternal cortisol, inflammation, hemoglobin, iron status, and BMI with birth outcomes in pregnant women in Ghana
Seminar Video
6/3/15
Rowan Harvey
Making Nutrition Programming Work for Women and Girls: A Women's Rights Approach
Seminar Video