The International Maillard Reaction Society

[bicentennial_baby]

"Dear Colleagues, Friends and Visitors to this site,

The purpose of this message is to invite all researchers with an interest in Maillard Reaction food science, biology and medicine to join the International Maillard Reaction Society as a member, friend and supporter. In 1912, Louis Camille Maillard postulated that his discovery, i.e., the reaction between reducing sugars and amino acids, would be of relevance to agronomy, nutrition and medicine, in particular diabetes. As we know today, just about every aspect of Maillard's discovery has materialized into major implications, both of beneficial and deleterious nature, and has expanded to lipid peroxidation and reactive carbonyls wherever they form.

This year, close to 1,000 papers are expected to be published under the sole title "glycation". This enormous growth has been the catalyst for chartering the International Maillard Reaction Society (IMARS), based on ideas brought forth at the Eighth International Maillard Reaction Symposium that was held from August 28 to September 1, 2004 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Our mission is to spread knowledge about the Maillard Reaction through organization of symposia, a scientific publication platform, and maintaining a website.We hope you will join the new Society and contribute scientifically, financially, and of your personal time by serving on various committees of IMARS. As Archimedes said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the Earth". With your help, we will move IMARS into a vigorous organization serving its members and our society.

I would like to thank all those who have donated their time and resources to get IMARS off the ground by accepting to be on the Acting Council: John W. Baynes, Ph.D. (Immediate "Past" President), Peter Schieberle, Ph.D. (President-Elect), Jennifer M. Ames, Ph.D. (Vice-President, Food and Nutrition Section), Naoyuki Taniguchi, M.D.,Ph.D. (Vice-President, Biology and Medicine Section), Ram Nagaraj, Ph.D. (Secretary-Treasurer), Susan R. Thorpe, Ph.D. (Chair, Publications Committee).

Vincent Monnier, M.D.
President "

http://imars.case.edu/ :D

[mike_c]

1. I'll bet they have killer banquets at the annual meetings....

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[hvn_nbr_2]

2. Thanks for that info.

I've only recently heard about glycation and I never heard of the Maillard reaction. Looks like there's some info there to check out.