Going beyond the surface: How stable isotopes are advancing nutrition research
This webinar is in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
This webinar will cover a range of IAEA-supported isotopic methods that measure several outcomes related to human health and nutrition. Findings on protein digestibility from plant-based diets will be highlighted. A new method to assess long term iron absorption and loss, as part of a recently launched coordinated research project, will be introduced and first findings using data on human milk intake from the IAEA Human Milk database will be presented. This database includes datapoints from approximately 3000 mother and infant pairs, representing 28 countries.
Endorsement No EN175.79
Curriculum
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- Going beyond the surface: how stable isotopes are advancing nutrition research1
Instructor
Dr Isabelle Herter-Aeberli is a nutritional scientist and lecturer at ETH Zurich. She is a food scientist by training and completed her PhD on nutritional risk factors for the metabolic syndrome in overweight children at ETH Zurich in 2008. After a year postdoctoral project at the University Hospital Zurich on the effects of fructose on the human metabolism, Isabelle received a mobility stipend from the Swiss National Science Foundation allowing her to pursue another postdoctoral project in India.
At St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore she studied the interactions between obesity and micronutrient deficiencies. She then returned to ETH Zurich in 2012 as a senior scientist and lecturer where she has continued her work on the double burden of obesity and micronutrient deficiencies, focusing on iron.
