Robinson Institute Events
Upcoming events at the Robinson Institute:
Special Seminar: Developmental Overnutrition
With Debbie Lawlor, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Bristol, UK
The association between pregnancy diabetes and having a heavier and fatter baby has been recognised for many decades.
There is good evidence that the mechanisms underlying this association are the free transfer of glucose across the placenta, which results in ‘overnutrition' of the developing fetus and stimulates greater fetal insulin secretion that acts as a growth hormone, further increasing the size of the infant at birth.
The seminar will summarise current evidence related to the developmental overnutrition hypothesis and also introduce some novel methodological approaches to assessing causality, with an emphasis on the logic (and also limitations) behind these.
- Date: Tuesday 24th January 2012, 4-5:30pm
- Venue: Napier Building, 102 Lecture Theatre, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide
- Register online
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Professor Alastair MacLennan Celebrations
After 35 years in Adelaide and 44 years practising medicine, Alastair is retiring.
The Scientific Symposium on Friday 2nd March 2012 will celebrate the major contributions Alastair has made in maternal perinatal medicine, reproductive medicine, cerebral palsy causation, menopausal medicine and his calls for evidence within complementary medicine.
