2004 Botanicals Symposium
Fourth
Annual Purdue-UAB Botanicals Center Symposium
Botanicals and Age-Related
Diseases
February
26, 2004
Radisson Hotel
808, 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35205
| Wednesday, February 25 | |
| 7pm-9pm | Reception for fellows and students: UAB, Tinsley Harrison Tower (932). |
| Thursday, February 26, Birmingham, Radisson Hotel, Centennial II room | |
| 8:00am | Breakfast & Registration, Heritage II room |
| 8:25 | Opening remarks Stephen Barnes (UAB), Associate Director, Botanicals Center Connie Weaver (Purdue University), Director, Botanicals Center |
| Each speaker will allowed 5 minutes for questions and answers at the end of their presentation. | |
| 8:35 | "Safeguarding Natural Interactions Between Bioactive Phytochemicals" Mary Ann Lila (University of Illinois-Urbana) |
| 9:10 | "Mechanisms
of Red Wine Polyphenol-Mediated Upregulation of Endothelial
Nitric Oxide Synthase" Dale Parks (University of Alabama-Birmingham) |
| 9:40 | "Should we use animals or animal models?" David Waters (Purdue University) |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | "Soy and Tibolone - A Nearly Ideal Postmenopausal Therapy?" Tom Clarkson (Wake Forest University) |
| 11:10 | "Soy protein and isoflavones and bone loss in postmenopausal women" Connie Weaver (Purdue University) |
| 11:40 | "Puerarin metabolism: Insights into the metabolism of a C-glucoside" Jeevan Prasain (UAB) Pilot grant recipient |
| 12:00 | "Urate and Inosine as Complimentary Therapies in Neurodegeneration" Joe Beckman (Oregon State University) |
| 12:40 | Lunch and poster viewing (awards presented at 3:00 pm) |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Tours of UAB facility |