The Department of Food Science and the Center for Human Nutrition invite you to virtually attend a free seminar featuring Dr. Elisabet Børsheim at 3:05 p.m. Monday. Børsheim will present her research on the important of exercise and nutrition in early life.

In her presentation, Børsheim will focus on childhood obesity and show that this can increase risk for later life metabolic dysfunction. She will discuss if physical fitness can attenuate negative effects of obesity in children and if there are critical windows of development where physical activity is of specific importance. Finally, she will present data on impact on early physical activity and nutrition on response to exercise later in life.

Børsheim is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Geriatrics at UAMS. She leads a research group on physical activity, bioenergetics and metabolism  at the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center and the Arkansas Children's Research Institute, and directs the Metabolism and Bioenergetics Core in the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention at ACRI.

Børsheim is an expert in using stable isotope methodology to measure muscle protein synthesis, lipid metabolism and bioenergetics. Børsheim's research has made lasting contributions to the fields of post-exercise energy and fat metabolism, mechanisms underlying the role of free amino acids as regulators of muscle protein metabolism, regulation of muscle and liver lipid metabolism in men and women, understanding the hypermetabolic response to burn injury in children, and, more recently, physical activity, energetics and metabolism during growth and development. 

Børsheim has more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and her research is currently supported by the three National Institutes of Health awards, NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence and the USDA.

Zoom Information:

• Zoom link
• Meeting ID: 839 8856 0720
• Passcode: +2xyN%g5

Links to Børsheim's work:

Research publications via the National Library of Medicine

Elisabet Borsheim Background, Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center

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