Molecular Nutrition

<p>Part 1: General and Introductory Aspects<br>1. Diet and maternal nutrition: an overview<br>2. Placenta metabolism<br>3. Pregnancy and weight gain<br>4. Breast milk feeding and impact on the infant: an overview<br>5. Feeding practices of infants<br>6. Nutritionally-driven gestational diseases and impact on health of the mother and infant<br>7. Glucose metabolism and pregnancy<br>8. Immune aspects of pregnancy and role of nutrition<br>9. Vitamin status in pregnancy and newborns<br>10. Fatty acid intake during perinatal periods<br>11. Mineral in pregnancy and newborns <br>12. Perinatal interventions; current and future perspectives<br>13. Perinatal nutrition and obesity</p> <p>Part 2: Molecular Biology of the Cell<br>14. Molecular aspects of fetal programming<br>15. Molecular aspects of dietary bioactive compounds in pregnancy<br>16. Amino acid transporters and protein metabolism in intrauterine growth (can focus on a single or groups of amino acids such as tryptophan)<br>17. Maternal micronutrients and one carbon metabolism<br>18. Overnutrition and mitochondrial function<br>19. mTOR, insulin/IGF-I signalling in relation to nutrients in pregnancy<br>20. Maternal high fat diet and molecular aspects of vascular function<br>21. Caffeine exposure and CNS developmental processes</p> <p>Part 3: Genetic Machinery and Its Function<br>22. Genetic risk factors in nutrient metabolism and fetal development<br>23. Pregnancy loss and polymorphisms in folic acid genes<br>24. Maternal vitamins and DNA methylation and implications for offspring (may want to focus on B vitamins)<br>25. Maternal obesity, and genes involved in lipid metabolism<br>26. Diet in lactation periods and impact on cancer: genetic aspects of mammary tissue<br>27. Maternal diet consumption and microRNAs<br>28. Vitamins (example of vitamin D) in pregnancy and gene expression<br>29. Epigenetic changes associated to different fat consumption<br>30. Epigenetic genes and maternal obesity<br>31. Transcriptomics of cord blood and implications for nutrition and diet<br>32. Maternal undernutrition and organ microRNAs<br>33. Genomic imprinting and fetal development (to link with nutrition and growth)<br>34. Nutritional influence on miRNA epigenetic regulation</p>