ISSFAL 2002 was the 5th in a series of International Congresses organised by ISSFAL.

It was held Wednesday May 8th - Saturday May 11th 2002,

at the Delta Centre-Ville Hotel, Montreal, Canada.

Conference Chair: Stephen Cunnane, University of Toronto and Laval University, Canada.

Conference Honorary Co- Presidents : Robert Ackman, OC, Dalhousie University, Canada and Michael Crawford, University of North London, UK.

Program at a Glance

The program for ISSFAL 2002 is as set out in outline below: Each day contained a number of plenary sessions, and a number of concurrent sessions. Clicking on the day will take you to the detailed program for that day, from which individual sessions or abstracts can be accessed. Clicking on the links below will take you to the detailed program, from which individual abstracts can be accessed. In addition to the oral sessions, there were also two poster sessions, sessions1 and 2. Clicking here will take you to the poster introduction page, which contains details of the various categories of posters, and will enable access to the individual poster abstracts. To return to this page, use the "back" button on your browser.

Conference Planning Committee:

Richard Bazinet, University of Toronto, Canada; Tom Clandinin, University of Alberta, Canada; Eric Dewailly, Laval University, Canada; Kelley Fitzpatrick, Saskatchewan Nutraceutical Network, Canada Victor Gavino, University of Montreal, Canada; Bruce Holub, University of Guelph, Canada; Sheila Innis, University of British Columbia, Canada; Peter Jones, McGill University, Canada; Emile Levy, University of Montreal, Canada; Michel Lucas, Laval University, Canada; Kathy Musa, University of Toronto, Canada; Nimal Ratnayake, Health Canada, Canada; Ken Stark, University of Guelph, Canada; Vasuki Wijendran, Cornell University, USA.

Tom Brenna, Cornell University, USA; Philip Calder, University of Southampton, UK; Susan Carlson, University of Kansas, USA; Zhen-yu-Chen, Chinese University, Hong Kong; Margaret Craig-Schmidt, Auburn University, USA; Michael Crawford, University of North London, UK; Claudio Galli, University of Milano, Italy (Past President, ISSFAL) ; Klaus Gawrisch, NIH, USA; Jan Glatz, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Tomohito Hamazaki, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan; Robert Katz, Omega-3 Research Institute, Inc., USA; Michel Lagarde, INSA/INSERM, France; Reto Muggli, Roche Vitamins Ltd., Switzerland; Bjorn Rene, Pronova Biocare A/S, Norway; Ray Rice, Fish Foundation, UK (Secretary-Treasurer, ISSFAL); Norman Salem Jr., NIAAA-NIH, USA (Vice-President, ISSFAL); Andrew Sinclair, RMIT University, Australia; Arthur Spector, University of Iowa, USA (President, ISSFAL); Ricardo Uauy, University of Santiago, Chile; Clemens von Shacky, University of Munich, Germany