Dr. Catherine Ross, Professor of Nutrition and Chair in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, will present a seminar entitled “Retinoid Homeostasis - Why it is Important to Public Health and Medicine” at noon on, Wednesday, April 18, as the next speaker for the Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics (NGN) Seminar Series. This seminar will take place in the Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union.

Catharine Ross received her undergraduate education at the University of California at Davis (B.S., zoology, 1970) graduate training at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (M.N.S., 1972, in nutrition and Ph.D., 1976, in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology), and postdoctoral training in the Department of Medicine, Columbia University, 1976-78. Currently, she is Professor of Nutrition and occupant of the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Dr. Ross has received recognition from professional societies, including: The Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 2001; National Academy of Sciences, 2003; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003. 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. 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.

All interested faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend this NGN seminar.