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NutrInsight • Satiety: From Appetite Sciences to Food Application & New Insights
Pr Marion Hetherington
Professor of Biopsychology, Institute of Psychological Science, university of Leeds, uk
m.hetherington@leeds.ac.uk
Marion Hetherington obtained a first class BSc honours in Psychology from the University of Glasgow. She received a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. She was a professor of biopsychology at University of Liverpool and then took up the Caledonian Futures Chair in Biopsychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. In 2008 she joined the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds where she is a Professor of Biopsychology. She is known for her work on short term influences on food intake, and has more recently investigated gene-environment interactions in the development of obesity. Her current research focuses on early determinants of overeating in children and she has been involved in evaluating the impact of school-based healthy eating interventions in Glasgow.
Pr Nathalie M. Delzenne
Head of the Research group in Metabolism and Nutrition, Louvain Drug Research Institute,
université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Nathalie.Delzenne@uclouvain.be
Nathalie Delzenne is Full Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She is a lecturer in Nutrition Biochemistry and Metabolism and is the leader of the Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group at the Louvain Drug Research Institute. She has been involved in international scientific committees (e.g. Editor for the current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, member of the Scientific Board of the European Academy of Nutritional Science). By working with prebiotics, her group has published more than 100 papers describing their effect on glucose/lipid metabolism, obesity-related disorder and inflammation.
Pr Hans Rudolf Berthoud
Head of the Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, uSA
berthoHR@pbrc.edu
Hans-Rudolf Berthoud obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on the Physiology of Feeding. He joined the faculty at the University of Geneva, Medical School, Switzerland, and after a stage at the Department of Psychology of Purdue University, he moved to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, where he is the George H. Bray Professor and head of the Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory. Pr Berthoud has presented numerous distinguished invited lectures and organized and chaired International symposia. He is co-executive editor of the journal Appetite and serves on the editorial boards of Endocrinology, the American Journal of Physiology, the International Journal of Obesity, and Obesity Facts. Pr Berthoud is primarily interested in the role of the nervous system in the processes maintaining energy homeostasis and nutrient intake.
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