Men's basketball interview - Creighton

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12/10/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the university's leadership in research in food science and understanding health and nutrition. Ronnie also talks about research in the Nebraska Food for Health Center including a recent finding that the order in which bacteria stake out unclaimed territory in the human gut can have critical health implications for a lifetime. Ronnie also talks about a new startup emerging out of work of alumni who've had experience working at Nebraska's Food Processing Center.

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[00:00:01.950]Greg Sharpe back in our
[00:00:02.783]Husker's Sports Network Studio, sitting down now with
[00:00:04.730]University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:07.016]The big matchup today with the Creighton Bluejays,
[00:00:09.248]you're hopin' that the home court helps
[00:00:10.703]tip the scales for Nebraska,
[00:00:12.893]but we're gonna talk tonight about diet and nutrition,
[00:00:16.390]and how that allows you to perform at a higher level.
[00:00:18.640]That's certainly been a big area of focus
[00:00:20.298]for Nebraska for decades,
[00:00:22.230]and the innovation continues.
[00:00:23.875]Well, you know what,
[00:00:25.250]we've been an innovator in that area,
[00:00:27.974]food production certainly,
[00:00:30.980]how we use food as humans,
[00:00:35.093]understanding food science and food technology
[00:00:37.860]has been an area this university has been
[00:00:40.150]a world leader in for a long time.
[00:00:41.700]We've also been a world leader in sports nutrition.
[00:00:44.190]Through Husker Athletics, we have a long legacy
[00:00:46.424]and long history there for performance nutrition,
[00:00:50.510]and we're very exited to have brought back
[00:00:53.890]Dave Ellis into the program,
[00:00:55.780]to lead our sports nutrition program and Husker Athletics
[00:00:58.600]with his new team earlier this fall.
[00:01:01.180]Exited for our student athletes
[00:01:02.680]to have that level of support,
[00:01:04.690]and it certainly makes sense in Nebraska,
[00:01:06.430]given that we're a world leader in food production,
[00:01:08.560]and understanding food and health and nutrition as well.
[00:01:12.250]There's no place like Nebraska in this area.
[00:01:14.213]Well the Nebraska Food for Health Center
[00:01:16.190]recently announced some research findings.
[00:01:18.180]What are the latest research telling us?
[00:01:21.050]Well, you know Greg,
[00:01:21.883]we're very fortunate here to have
[00:01:23.810]a world leading Food for Health Center,
[00:01:26.250]which is housed out of our
[00:01:27.902]Food Science and Technology department here at UNL,
[00:01:31.300]out of Innovation Campus and our Food Innovation Center,
[00:01:34.360]also with components at UNO, and UNMC,
[00:01:38.010]Tied together across the university system,
[00:01:41.550]where we're looking at the importance of gut microbes,
[00:01:45.940]and understanding how those microbes colonize the human gut.
[00:01:49.822]As babies are born and develop into adults,
[00:01:54.492]as well as what food,
[00:01:56.780]how me might change food inputs, or food products
[00:02:00.210]to create a healthier or longer term health
[00:02:02.821]for people as well.
[00:02:04.980]So it's a big center, a well funded center
[00:02:07.910]that's lead by Dr. Andy Benson,
[00:02:09.550]and Amanda Ramer-Tait and other faculty,
[00:02:11.510]and they just published some new research,
[00:02:14.100]Dr Ramer-Tait in fact, was the leader on this research,
[00:02:17.871]who has now found that in her most recent work,
[00:02:23.210]that the order in which these bacterial species
[00:02:26.411]stake out unclaimed territory in the gut
[00:02:29.440]as it's colonized can shape that ecosystem
[00:02:32.640]for a lifetime, for a full lifetime.
[00:02:34.550]So in other words,
[00:02:35.770]if the wrong kind of bacteria,
[00:02:37.761]or wrong populations of bacteria populate that gut early,
[00:02:42.375]there might be more predisposition
[00:02:45.170]to health issues later in life,
[00:02:48.700]so it's a very important finding in this group,
[00:02:51.901]and through the Nebraska Food for Health Center
[00:02:54.390]that is doin' innovative research
[00:02:55.930]that we believe is goin' to lead
[00:02:57.340]to much healthier use of food in the future.
[00:03:00.850]Very good, well Nebraska's also a leader
[00:03:02.120]in the science of food processing,
[00:03:03.740]including helping startup companies
[00:03:05.590]develop their own food products.
[00:03:07.070]Is that correct?
[00:03:07.903]That's right Greg.
[00:03:08.968]We've had a long reputation in this area.
[00:03:11.350]The Food Processing Center is a center
[00:03:13.840]that works with individuals in private industry,
[00:03:17.250]or groups in private industry
[00:03:18.900]around development of new products.
[00:03:21.500]A recent example is a new startup company
[00:03:24.801]that came out of three Husker alumni here,
[00:03:27.924]one of whom worked at the Food Processing Center
[00:03:31.010]when she was a student in the program,
[00:03:33.180]called Bug Eater Foods,
[00:03:34.650]and the name is actually meant to mean what it means.
[00:03:38.873]It's a company that is making food products from insects,
[00:03:43.334]or from insect byproducts, and in the last month,
[00:03:47.792]Bug Eater Foods actually introduced
[00:03:50.180]a new product called Bugsaroni,
[00:03:52.127]if you will, it's a pasta as you might guess.
[00:03:55.702]It's actually made in part using cricket flour,
[00:03:59.070]or flour made from crickets,
[00:04:00.689]so human food, made from insects that have been used
[00:04:04.947]in lots of parts of the world for a long time.
[00:04:07.850]We're learning new ways
[00:04:08.860]through this new company to do that.
[00:04:10.953]And I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention
[00:04:14.950]that in that same program,
[00:04:16.190]we have a program called FARRP,
[00:04:17.830]which is the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program,
[00:04:20.740]Also part of this food science effort,
[00:04:23.110]that works with 90 of the leading companies
[00:04:25.980]all over the world collectively together
[00:04:28.970]around everything to do with allergens related to food.
[00:04:32.150]We're known as the international place in the world
[00:04:35.330]that leads in this effort.
[00:04:36.900]Also a big part of our food efforts
[00:04:39.220]in the Food Innovation Center at NIC.
[00:04:41.290]Fantastic, thanks for sharin'.
[00:04:42.580]Enjoy the rest of the game.
[00:04:43.970]Lookin' forward to a big win
[00:04:45.440]against Creighton tonight.
[00:04:46.460]Go Big Red.
[00:04:47.430]Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:04:49.190]More second half action comin' up next.

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