Caribbean Institute for Health Research
University of the West Indies, Mona
Kingston, Jamaica
Monday 8 April
09:00-09:30: Registration
09:30-09:40: Host welcome – Professor Susan Walker, Director, CAIHR
09:40-10:00: Updates on the MILEAGE project - Professor Irina Korichneva
10:00-10:30: Secondment progress - Professor John H. Beattie
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Project Progress Discussions
11:00-11:15: Work Package 1 - Professor Irina Korichneva, Professor John H. Beattie
11:15-11:30: Work Package 2 - Professor Miguel Arredondo
11:30- 11:45: Work Package 3 - Professor John H. Beattie, Scientific update by Ms. Racquel Wright
11:45-12:00: Work package 4 - Professor Irina Korichneva
12:00-13:00: Lunch
Scientific presentations by participants, secondment proposals
13:00- 13:30 Professor Miguel Arredondo (UCHILE): Copper Homeostasis
13:30- 13:50 Professor Rodolphe Fischmeister (INSERM): Research Objectives at INSERM U1180
13:50-14:20 Dr Andrew Golub (IFLAB): Computational Drug Discovery in Ion Transport
14:20-14:45 Professor Marvin Reid (UNIWI): Research Objectives at CAIHR
14:45-15:30 Coffee Break
Scientific presentations by participants, student presentations
15:30- 15:45: Plasma Zinc and copper in the Jamaican elderly sarcopenia patients - Bentley Chambers
15:45-16:00: Pathways of zinc metabolism in cell cultures - Sherine Whyte
16:00-16:15: Metabolomics and Microbiomes – Dr Daniel Thomas
16: 15-17:00: Round table discussion, wrap up of day’s activities- Professor John H. Beattie
19:00-21:30: Cocktails at Long Mountain
Tuesday 9 April
Scientific presentations by participants, secondment proposals
09:00-09:30: Professor Helen Asemota (Biotech Centre): Mineral composition and bio fortification of tuber crops
09:30-10:00: Professor Jorg Feldmann (UNIABDN), Minerals and the heart
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-10:50: Professor Asha Badaloo (UNIWI): Micronutrients intake in Jamaican elderly
10:50- 11:10: Dr Nadia Bennett (ERU, CAIHR): Vascular Function and Aging
11:10-11:30: Professor Vladimir Veksler (INSERM):Mitochondrial Function and Life Cycle as Determinants of Cardiac Function and Longevity
11:30- 11:50: Dr Monika Asnani (SCU, CAIHR): The Sickle cell heart
11:50 -12:20: Dr Douladel Tyndale (UNIWI): Profile of the Jamaican elderly
12:20-12:30: Round table discussion
12:30-2:30: Lunch
12:30-2:30: Project Management Board working lunch (Requires attendance by at least one representative from each Consortium Institution)
14:30-17:00: Tour of the Institute/Campus
18:30-19:30: Dinner:Chillin