Professor
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Ken Stark is a Canada Research Chair in Nutritional Lipidomics and a Full Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. He completed his B.Sc. in Human Biology at the University of Toronto, his Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Nutritional Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Stark has over 120 peer-reviewed publications that include highly cited articles in Progress in Lipid Research, the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Lipid Research and The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He has specific expertise in measuring blood levels of fatty acids to assess the dietary intake of omega-3 PUFA. He has also developed lipidomic analytical techniques for nutritional research and examined the effects of sex and pregnancy on docosahexaenoic acid metabolism. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids, and he is a member of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Canadian Nutrition Society, the American Society for Nutrition, and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Lipids, and he is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Nutrition. Prof. Stark teaches biochemistry and advanced nutrition undergraduate classes at the University of Waterloo.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM MDT