2^nd International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Nutrition Supplements July 18-19, 2016 Bangkok, Thailand

Chandan Prasad graduated from Louisiana State University in 1970 with a Ph.D. in microbiology/biochemistry. After 8 years at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland as Fogerty fellow and senior staff fellow, he returned to New Orleans to join the faculty of LSU School of Medicine. He served LSU Health Sciences Center as professor (medicine and neuroscience), Director of Obesity Research Program, and vice chairman (research) in the Department of Medicine until 2006. He was the first chair of the laboratory of Nutrition and Brain at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center from 1991-1993 under directorship of Prof. George Bray MD. He joined Texas Woman’s University as Professor & Chair of the Department of Nutrition and served in this capacity until 2012. He also served TWU as Assistant Provost for Research Promotion from 2012 to 2014. Currently, he is Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the Texas Woman's University and Professor (Emeritus) of Medicine (Endocrinology) at the LSU Health Sciences Center- New Orleans, LA.

The current focus of Dr. Prasad’s research is on inflammation and the role of dietary supplements in obesity, diabetes, and heart diseases. He has authored more than 200 papers in the area off appetite regulation, obesity, and nutrition. He holds four U.S. and international patents for treatment of obesity and alcoholism. He is Founding Editor of Nutritional Neuroscience, series editor for Nutrition, Brain, and Behavior, Editor-in-Chief of Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research and Member of the Board of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics.

Zhaojun Wei has received his BS from Anhui Agricultural University (1993), MS from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2001) and PhD from University of Science and Technology of China (2005). Currently, he is the distinguished Professor and Deputy Dean of School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at Hefei University of Technology (HFUT). He also serves as the Chairman of the Agricultural and forestry specialty food processing industry technological innovation strategic alliance of Anhui province, Chairman of the Hefei Society for Nutrition, and a Member of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular of Agriculture. His research focuses on the processing and function of nutraceuticals from the byproducts of Agriculture and forestry, e.g., DNJ from mulberry, Pectin from okra, polysaccharides from peony seed dreg and others.

Dr Zhaojun Wei's research focuses on the processing and function of nutraceuticals from the byproducts of Agriculture and forestry, e.g., DNJ from mulberry, Pectin from okra, polysaccharides from peony seed dreg and others.

Mohanakumar KP is the Director of Inter University Centre for Biomedical Research & Super Specialty Hospital, a Govt of Kerala autonomous institution with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He graduated from Saurashtra University with a Masters degree in chemical neuroanatomy and PhD in Neurochemistry. He was Chief Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, where he has established a laboratory on neurodegenerative diseases, with special reference to Parkinson's disease, in relation to pathogenesis, progression of the disease and its treatment. His cybrids laboratory facility is recognized for his interest in mitochondrial involvement in neurodegenerative diseases. He has more than 125 peer reviewed publications, and guided 30 PhD students in the field of Neuropharmacology, and more than a hundred postgraduates in Medicine, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and other biomedical discipline. A fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India; West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology and Indian Academy of Neurosciences, he received National Bioscientist Award from DBT, Govt. of India and ICMR, Govt. of India Young Scientist Prize. He is a Professor of Biological Sciences of AcSIR, India and served as Professor of TWAS-UNESCO and IISER, Thiruvananthapuram. He serves as editorial member of J Neurochem, Neurochem Int, Neurochem Res, Neurosci Med, Anat Cell Biol, etc.

Neurosciences

Dr Siew-Young Quek, Associate Professor in Food Science has research interests in in food processing with a focus on fats and oils, fruits and seafood. She has worked with a number of New Zealand food and beverage companies on technical aspects of product development. Her research encompasses a variety of developments related to functional food.

Dr Quek’s current work includes extraction and characterisation of bio-actives and flavour compounds from plant material, including from food industry waste. Her laboratory is well established to conduct evaluations of antioxidant potential and oxidative stability using methods provide to provide better indications of antioxidant activity in vitro; encapsulation of bioactive components for delivery through functional foods; and evaluation of the effect of processing on the nutritional value of food and food structure

Lynn Ferguson obtained her D.Phil. from Oxford University, working on the subject of DNA damage, DNA repair and mutagenesis in yeast. After her return to New Zealand, she began working as part of the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, using mutagenicity testing as a predictor of carcinogenesis, with particular focus on the New Zealand situation. In 2000, she took on a 50% role as Head of a new Discipline of Nutrition at The University of Auckland. In more recent years, she has considered the interplay between genes and diet in the development of chronic disease, with particular focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a cancer-prone condition, and also in prostate cancer. As programme leader for the multidisciplinary-multiorganisation Nutrigenomics New Zealand, she has been working with a range of others to bring nutrigenomics tools and potential to the New Zealand science scene. She has supervised more than 30 students to the successful completion of B.tech, MSc or PhD. Her laboratory regularly supervises 2-3 summer students each year. She is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer reviewed publications as chapters in books or articles in international journals. Her current H-index (Google Scholar) is 50, with 10,228 citations. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several major journals.

Lynnette's current research considers the interplay between genes and diet in the development of chronic disease, with particular focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a cancer-prone condition and also in both colorectal and prostate cancer. As programme leader for the multidisciplinary-multiorganisation Nutrigenomics New Zealand, she has worked with a range of others across The university of Auckland, Plant and Food Research and Agresearch Ltd, to bring nutrigenomics tools and potential to the New Zealand science scene. http://www.nutrigenomics.org.nz/ Research interests: Gene-diet interactions in the development of chronic disease, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Colorectal cancer, Prostate cancer

Lynn Ferguson obtained her D.Phil. from Oxford University, working on the subject of DNA damage, DNA repair and mutagenesis in yeast. After her return to New Zealand, she began working as part of the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, using mutagenicity testing as a predictor of carcinogenesis, with particular focus on the New Zealand situation. In 2000, she took on a 50% role as Head of a new Discipline of Nutrition at The University of Auckland. In more recent years, she has considered the interplay between genes and diet in the development of chronic disease, with particular focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a cancer-prone condition, and also in prostate cancer. As programme leader for the multidisciplinary-multiorganisation Nutrigenomics New Zealand, she has been working with a range of others to bring nutrigenomics tools and potential to the New Zealand science scene. She has supervised more than 30 students to the successful completion of B.tech, MSc or PhD. Her laboratory regularly supervises 2-3 summer students each year. She is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer reviewed publications as chapters in books or articles in international journals. Her current H-index (Google Scholar) is 50, with 10,228 citations. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several major journals.

Much of Lynn’s early work was on carcinogenesis, including cancer causing and cancer preventing agents in the New Zealand diet. In more recent years, she has considered the interplay between genes and diet in the development of chronic disease, with particular focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a cancer-prone condition, and also in prostate cancer.