Berries and Berry Bioactive Compounds in Promoting Health

Professor Klimis-Zacas received her PhD in 1982 at Pennsylvania State University and now is Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the School of Food and Agriculture, The University of Maine, USA. Her professional interests are nutritional physiology and biochemistry, nutrition and vascular function and metabolism and berry bioactives and their role on chronic disease (cardiovascular, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome). She teaches on food and nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, trace minerals, and lipids, diet and cardiovascular disease. Recent research in her laboratory targets vascular nutrition, nutritional biochemistry and clinical nutrition, in an attempt to unravel mechanisms of bioactive compounds in berries in attenuating oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and inflammation, the cause of several chronic diseases. Dr Rodriquez-Mateos received her PhD from the University of Reading in 2006 which lead to her doing further postdoctoral research. In 2012, she became Research Group Leader at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Since 2016, she has been Lecturer in Nutrition at King’s College London with research interests including the influence of diet on cardiovascular disease prevention, effects of polyphenols and other plant food bioactives on cardiovascular health and mechanisms of action, the bioavailability of dietary phytochemicals and analysis of food components and biological samples using chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques /metabolomics.

Bioactive Compounds of Berries: Chemistry and Analytical Methods of Detection;

Occurrence, Bioavailability and Metabolism of Berry(Poly)phenols;

Factors Affecting the Inter-individual Variability in the Cardiometabolic Response to Berry (Poly)phenols;

The Effects of Berry Bioactive Compounds on Vascular Function;

Mechanisms of Action of Berry Bioactives on the Vascular System;

Berry Bioactives and Cognition;

Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Berry Bioavailable Polyphenol Metabolites;

The Role and Mechanisms of Berries and Berry Bioactive Compounds in Cancer;

The Role of Berry Bioactive Compounds in Diabetes Mellitus;

The Role of Berries and Their Bioactive Compounds on Obesity-induced Inflammation;

Mechanisms of Action of Berry Bioactives on Obesity-induced Inflammation;

The Role of Berries as Potential Wound Healing Agents