The Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics Seminar Series continues with Cathy Ross discussing "Retinoid Homeostasis — Why it is Important to Public Health and Medicine" at noon April 18 in the East Union Great Plains Room. The talk is free and open to the public.
Ross is professor of nutrition and the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State University. She has conducted research in the area of retinoid metabolism and homeostasis since the mid-1970s and in the area of vitamin A/retinoids as regulators of immune function since the late 1980s. She has served on scientific review panels and editorial committees including NIH study sections, the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. She is an editor of the textbook "Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease" and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Nutrition.