Open seminar on butyrates and metabolic health
Results from the project ButCoIns will be presented at an open seminar. Food companies, clinical dietitians and other health professionals are invited.
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Meeting room 8, Agro Food Park 13, 8200 Aarhus N
Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid deriving from the fermentation of dietary fibre by the colonic microflora. Butyrate is believed to play a particularly important role in maintaining colonic health and function and has been linked to metabolic health parameters such as insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis.
In the ButCoIns project, funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council (now Innovation Fund Denmark), partners have studied various concepts to enhance butyrate production in the large intestine, in order to improve colonic and metabolic health.
On Wednesday March 2, 2016 the project partners will present the results at an open seminar in Agro Food Park, Aarhus.
In the project, emphasis has been put on two types of dietary fibre (prebiotics), arabinoxylan and resistant starch, which have been studied both in vitro and in vivo (animal models and human subjects with the metabolic syndrome). A synbiotic concept combining a prebiotic diet with delivery of a butyrate producing bacteria has also been studied both in vitro and in vivo.
At the seminar the partners will elaborate on the main outcomes of all these studies.
The ButCoIns project is a collaboration between the academic partners, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and University of California, Davis and the industrial partners DuPont Industrial Bioscience, DuPont Nutrition and Health, KMC Kartoffelmelscentralen and Lantmännen.
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Price: 400 DKK
Target audience: Food companies including managers, product developers, technical and academic staff. Clinical dietitians and other health professionals.
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If non-Danish speaking participants sign up, the seminar will be held in English.
Program
9:00-9:30 | Registration and coffee |
9:30-9:45 | Welcome, background and introduction to the ButCoIns project Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
9:45-10:00 | Arabinoxylan and resistant starch – two dietary fibre components with the potential to influence butyrate production Helle Nygaard Lærke, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
10:00-10:30 | Butyrogenic effects of pre- and probiotics in vitro Stig Purup, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
10:30-11:00 | Gut formation of butyrate and influence on gene expression parameters related to gut health – animal studies Tina Skau Nielsen, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20-11:50 | Absorption of metabolites derived from dietary carbohydrates, insulin secretion, liver extraction and release of insulin and carbohydrate-derived metabolites to peripheral circulation Peter Kappel Theil, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
11.50-12:20 | Beyond short-chain fatty acids – what complex arabinoxylan and resistant starch rich diets also deliver to the body Mette Skou Hedemann, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science |
12:20-13:20 | Lunch |
13:20-13:50 | Human subjects with the metabolic syndrome – why the target group for studying gut and metabolic health? Søren Gregersen, Aarhus University Hospital, Dept. of Endocrinology and Metabolism |
13:50-14:30 | Impact of arabinoxylan and resistant starch on the gut microbiome and gut health parameters in human subjects with metabolic syndrome Stine Hald, Aarhus University Hospital, Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
14:30-15:00 | Coffee break |
15:00-15:40 | Impact of microbial metabolites on the peripheral tissue and insulin sensitivity in human subjects with metabolic syndrome Anne Grethe Schioldan, Aarhus University Hospital, Dept. of Endocrinology and Metabolism |
15:40-16:00 | General discussion
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16:00-17:00 | Meet the researchers - a chance for matchmaking under relaxed conditions |