BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0b63ad7d-fffa-44a1-8905-0d32f4c585f8.171215@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20160901T170644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T170644Z LOCATION:Roy Blunt Hall 001 SUMMARY:CNAS Fall Public Lecture Series - FATS: The Good\, The Bad and The Oily DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dean Cuebas\, Professor\, Department of Chemistry\, will b e the first speaker for the CNAS Fall Public Lecture Series - FATS: The G ood\, The Bad and The Oily.\n\n\nFats are familiar to everyone and consti tute a subset of many of the fatty substances in life known as lipids\, w hich all share the physical property of having very low solubility in wat er. Once thought of as the “oily junk” that needed to be removed from bio logical sources so that the important biomolecules (DNA\, proteins\, etc. ) could be studied\, lipids are now known to be an extremely important cl ass of compounds that serve many diverse functions. Some examples of this diversity include energy storage and insulation (fats)\, biological memb rane construction (phospholipids and cholesterol)\, Nature’s best deterge nt (bile acids)\, powerful hormone-like signal messaging (prostaglandins\ , leukotrienes\, thromboxanes\, etc.)\, protective coatings (waxes)\, ste roid hormones\, and the water-insoluble vitamins.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe above fu nctions of lipids are essential for survival\, but because of their extre me water insolubility\, an excess of lipids due to either over consumptio n\, or decreased breakdown\, causes a myriad of disease states\, some of which are due to genetic mutations that have been unraveled by the speake r. The “magical” benefit of fish oils\, and adventitious introduction of trans fats into the human diet and their unquestionable negative effect o n health will also be explored. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Dr . Dean Cuebas\, Professor\, Department of Chemistry\, will be the first s peaker for the CNAS Fall Public Lecture Series - FATS: The Good\, The Bad and The Oily.</p>\n<p><span face="Calibri" size="3">Fats are familiar to everyone and constitute a subset of many of the fatty substances in life known as lipids\, which all share the physical property of having very l ow solubility in water. Once thought of as the &ldquo\;oily junk&rdquo\; that needed to be removed from biological sources so that the important b iomolecules (DNA\, proteins\, etc.) could be studied\, lipids are now kno wn to be an extremely important class of compounds that serve many divers e functions. Some examples of this diversity include energy storage and i nsulation (fats)\, biological membrane construction (phospholipids and ch olesterol)\, Nature&rsquo\;s best detergent (bile acids)\, powerful hormo ne-like signal messaging (prostaglandins\, leukotrienes\, thromboxanes\, etc.)\, protective coatings (waxes)\, steroid hormones\, and the water-in soluble vitamins.</span></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><span face="Calibri" size="3">T he above functions of lipids are essential for survival\, but because of their extreme water insolubility\, an excess of lipids due to either over consumption\, or decreased breakdown\, causes a myriad of disease states \, some of which are due to genetic mutations that have been unraveled by the speaker. The &ldquo\;magical&rdquo\; benefit of fish oils\, and adve ntitious introduction of trans fats into the human diet and their unquest ionable negative effect on health will also be explored. </span></p>\n<p> </p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160920T200000 SEQUENCE:0 URL: CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR