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Carol J. Lammi-Keefe Alma Beth Clark Professor and Division Head Human Nutrition & Food School of Human Ecology Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-1518 Fax: 225-578-4443 Email: clammikeefe@agcenter.lsu.edu

Research Interests:
Omega-3 fatty acids in pregnancy and development, diabetes, postpartum depression, obesity. Functional foods.

Recent and Notable Publications:
Judge, M.P., Harel, O., and C.J. LAMMI-KEEFE. 2007. A docosahexaenoic acid-functional food during pregnancy benefits infant visual acuity at four but not six months of age. Lipids, 42:117-122.

Judge, M.P., Harel, O., and C.J. LAMMI-KEEFE. 2007. Maternal consumption of a DHA-functional food during pregnancy: benefit for infant performance on problem-solving but not recognition memory tasks at 9 months of age. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 85:1572-1577.

Wood, J.T., Pandarinathan, L., Courville, A., Keplinger, M.R., Janero, D.R., Vouros, P., Makriyannis, A, and C.J. LAMMI-KEEFE. 2008. Comprehensive profiling of the human circulating endocannabinoid metabolome: formulation and validation of a clinical sampling protocol. Clin. Chem. Lab. Med, 46(9):1289-1295.

LAMMI-KEEFE, C.J., S. Couch and E. Phillipson (eds). 2008. Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy. Humana Press, NJ.

LAMMI-KEEFE, C.J. 2009, Fish is brain food. Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, 51(4):24-25.

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Recent Presentations:

DHA in Pregnancy: Evidence for Infant Deveplopmental Continuum and Improved Maternal Insulin Sensitivity. November 20, 2008. Milanopediatria, Milan ,Italy.

Fish oil in Pregnancy: Benefits to the Deveploping Infant. December, 9, 2008. Allied health Sciences,University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

DHA in Pregnancy: Better Sleep, Vision, and Problem Solving for Infants. January 30, 2007. 2007 Seafood in Perspective Technical Conference. Orlando, FLA.

DHA and Pregnancy: Benefit to Infant behavioral Development. November 25, 2006. Milanopediatria. Milan, Italy.

Functional Foods & Infant Functional Outcomes—Viewing Pregnancy as a Link. Food and Nutrition Conference & Exhibition. September, 2006. Honolulu, HI

Smarter, Better Sleeping Babies—Can What the Mother Consumes Make a Difference? Food and Nutrition Conference & Exhibition. September, 2006. Honolulu, HI.

DHA-Functional Food in Pregnancy: Benefit to Infant Problem Solving but Not Recognition Memory at 9 Months of Age. Int’l Soc Study Fatty Acids Lipids. July, 2006. Cairns, AUS.

Teaching Expertise:
Nutritional Biochemistry; Food, Culture & Society; Graduate Dissertation

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Honors and Awards:

Grants and Contracts:
USDA-IFAFS, PI (Co-PI, Evelyn Thoman). Can DHA-Functional Foods in Pregnancy Enhance Infant Neurobehavioral Development? 9/15/01-08/31/06. $1,200,000.

USDA FAS, PI (Co-PI, SLB Kajuna). Nutritional Status of Pregnant Tanzanian Women: An Assessment of Fatty Acids Critical to Infant Growth and Development and Impact of HIV/AIDS. 7/01/04-12/31/08. $44,996.

Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. Co-PI (PI, Cheryl Beck). DHA-Functional Food During Pregnancy: Postpartum Depression. 1/1/05-12/31/08. $240,000.

National Fisheries Institute. Preganancy as a Risk Factor for Decreased Macular Pigment and Macular Degeneration. 2008. $22,000.

American Dieteic Association

Louisiana Dieteic Association

American Society of Nutrition(formerly American Society of Nutritional Sciences;formerly American Institute of Nutrition)

American Oil Chemists' Society

International Society for Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids

Nutritional Biochemistry; Food, Culture & Society; Graduate Dissertation

School of Human Ecology
Louisiana State University
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