Rita Nilsen McStay, Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science will defend her PhD thesis: Cheese intake and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and the metabolic syndrome. With particular reference to Gamalost intake and its effect on blood pressure, on 28 April 2015.
Norwegian title of thesis:
Inntak av ost og risikofaktorer for hjerte- og karsykdommer og det metabolske syndrom. Med fokus på Gamalost-inntak og effekten på blodtrykk
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
Bioactive peptides in cheese – role and evidence for protecting effects with regard to markers of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Tuesday 28 April 2015 at 12:15
The Biotechnology Builing, Library, Campus Ås
Supervisors:
Professor Siv Skeie, NMBU Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (Main supervisor)
Professor Anna Haug, NMBU Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (Co-supervisor)
Dr. Arne Torbjørn Høstmark, University of Oslo (Co-supervisor)
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Associate Professor Tine Tholstrup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Second opponent: Principal Research Scientist Dr. Anne Pihlanto, LUKE, Finland
Coordinator: Professor Harald Carlsen, NMBU Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2015:23, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1275-0