Going beyond the surface: how stable isotopes are advancing nutrition research

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Dr Isabelle Herter-Aeberli

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Novel nutrition research methodologies and technologies, On-Demand Webinars

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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.

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Language English
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Dr Isabelle Herter-Aeberli

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.

Emeritus Professor Tom Preston

Tom Preston is an Emeritus Professor of Stable Isotope Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow. He has applied isotopic measurements (2H, 13C,15N and 18O) in living systems to interpret biochemical and physiological processes for biomedical applications.

Marieke de Sévaux

Marieke de Sévaux is a PhD candidate at the University Medical Center Groningen. She completed her Master of Science degree in Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology at the University of Groningen in 2020, focusing on health systems and population-level prevention. During her master's studies, Marieke collaborated with the Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section at the IAEA, examining the relationship between breastfeeding and wealth at both the national and individual level as part of the master thesis work. To further pursue her research interests in nuclear techniques applied to breast milk analysis, Marieke secured funding for a three-year doctoral program during which she is involved in the development of the IAEA Database on Human Milk Intake.