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News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu

Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

EXPERT ON MILK FAT TO DELIVER K-STATE HAGEMAN DISTINGUISHED BIOCHEMISTRY LECTURE NOV. 5

MANHATTAN -- An upcoming lecturer at Kansas State University will explain how a cow's metabolism works and how diet and other factors affect the amount of fat found in milk.

Dale E. Bauman, Liberty Hyde Bailey professor in the department of animal sciences at Cornell University, is presenting this year's Richard H. and Elizabeth C. Hageman Distinguished Lecture in Agricultural Biochemistry. Bauman will deliver "Regulation of Fat Synthesis: Nutrigenomics and the Low-Fat Milk Syndrome" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in 120 Ackert Hall. A reception will precede the lecture at 3:30 in the foyer of Chalmers Hall.

Bauman also will present a colloquium titled "Bioactive Fatty Acids in Milk Fat: Are all trans Fatty Acids the Same?" from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday Nov. 6, in 36 Chalmers Hall. Refreshments will be served a 9:15 a.m.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Bauman earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in dairy science from the University of Illinois. His Ph.D. work was on fatty acid synthesis in the mammary gland. More recently he has shown that there are specific dietary factors that control such synthesis at the level of gene regulation. Other recent research efforts have focused on using milk to deliver beneficial fatty acids, such as conjugated oleic acids, into the human diet. Bauman also has explored the impact of altered rumen fermentation on milk fat production, which is the topic of the Hageman lecture.

The Richard H. and Elizabeth C. Hageman Distinguished Lectureship in Agricultural Biochemistry is supported by an endowment from the Hagemans. The late Richard Hageman, a Kansas native and K-State alum, was a research chemist and professor who studied plant nitrogen metabolism and rate-limiting enzymes in crops. Elizabeth Hageman, a retired biochemist, was involved in pioneering work with the in-vitro culture of bovine mammary gland tissue.