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Human Nutrition, Environment and Health (T1)
Organizer(s) Martin Kussmann, Hannelore Daniel and Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro
October 14—18, 2015
China World Hotel • Beijing, China
Discounted Abstract Deadline: Jun 16, 2015
Abstract Deadline: Jul 14, 2015
Scholarship Deadline: Jun 16, 2015
Discounted Registration Deadline: Sep 10, 2015
Organized in collaboration with BGI. Sponsored by Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences. Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Summary of Meeting:
Diet is the most important environmental factor for maintaining health and preventing disease. The increasing incidence of complex, age-related chronic diseases, as well as the ongoing prevalence of malnutrition, is fueling scientific, ethical and economic calls for intensifying and improving translational health care research. Understanding the interactions of nutrition and lifestyle with an individual’s genetic makeup is a necessary first step to developing strategies to prevent or delay metabolic and cognitive decline and to complement the reactive approach of using pharmaceuticals to treat symptoms. Translational research to maintain health and prevent and/or delay disease onset requires an interdisciplinary systems approach that embraces complexity of human individuality in a rapidly changing environment. Nutrigenomics overarches this theme by investigating how genomic and epigenomic individuality predisposes to dietary response, health and disease and how an individual’s genome expresses itself at different omic levels (proteomics, metabonomics, lipidomics) in response to environment, including nutrition. Molecular phenotyping of humans over time and across healthy and safe exposures and challenges represents a new research strategy that begins to embrace nutritional, environmental, genomic, microbiological and epidemiological competencies and will thereby challenge more classical nutritional approaches. At the same time, nutrition is advancing from a rather reductionist and descriptive approach to a more quantitative, systems-level science. The goals and outcomes of this meeting include: 1) Bringing together researchers from traditionally rather separated disciplines: nutrition, (gen)omics, clinics, physiology, epidemiology, analytics, biomathematics; 2) Advancing nutrition research as a quantitative, holistic and molecular science; 3) Reviewing/challenging classical pre-clinical models and clinical study designs and incorporating improved translational in vitro and in vivo models, human intervention study designs, and innovative new tools/technologies for molecular phenotyping and capture of human diet and lifestyle; and 4) Connecting basic laboratory science to patient- and consumer-relevant outputs in terms of personalized dietary/nutritional counseling and monitoring/diagnostics.
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Diet is the most important environmental factor for maintaining health and preventing disease. The increasing incidence of complex, age-related chronic diseases, as well as the ongoing prevalence of malnutrition, is fueling scientific, ethical and economic calls for intensifying and improving translational health care research. Understanding the interactions of nutrition and lifestyle with an individual’s genetic makeup is a necessary first step to developing strategies to prevent or delay metabolic and cognitive decline and to complement the reactive approach of using pharmaceuticals to treat symptoms. Translational research to maintain health and prevent and/or delay disease onset requires an interdisciplinary systems approach that embraces complexity of human individuality in a rapidly changing environment. Nutrigenomics overarches this theme by investigating how genomic and epigenomic individuality predisposes to dietary response, health and disease and how an individual’s genome expresses itself at different omic levels (proteomics, metabonomics, lipidomics) in response to environment, including nutrition. Molecular phenotyping of humans over time and across healthy and safe exposures and challenges represents a new research strategy that begins to embrace nutritional, environmental, genomic, microbiological and epidemiological competencies and will thereby challenge more classical nutritional approaches. At the same time, nutrition is advancing from a rather reductionist and descriptive approach to a more quantitative, systems-level science. The goals and outcomes of this meeting include: 1) Bringing together researchers from traditionally rather separated disciplines: nutrition, (gen)omics, clinics, physiology, epidemiology, analytics, biomathematics; 2) Advancing nutrition research as a quantitative, holistic and molecular science; 3) Reviewing/challenging classical pre-clinical models and clinical study designs and incorporating improved translational in vitro and in vivo models, human intervention study designs, and innovative new tools/technologies for molecular phenotyping and capture of human diet and lifestyle; and 4) Connecting basic laboratory science to patient- and consumer-relevant outputs in terms of personalized dietary/nutritional counseling and monitoring/diagnostics.
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No registration fees are used to fund entertainment or alcohol at this conference
The meeting will begin on Wednesday, October 14 with registration from 16:00 to 20:00 and a welcome mixer from 18:00 to 20:00. Conference events conclude on Sunday, October 18 with a closing plenary session from 17:00 to 19:00, followed by a social hour. We recommend return travel on Monday, October 19 in order to fully experience the meeting.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
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The meeting will begin on Wednesday, October 14 with registration from 16:00 to 20:00 and a welcome mixer from 18:00 to 20:00. Conference events conclude on Sunday, October 18 with a closing plenary session from 17:00 to 19:00, followed by a social hour. We recommend return travel on Monday, October 19 in order to fully experience the meeting.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
18:00—20:00
Networking and Welcome Mixer
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.
09:00—10:00
Welcome and Keynote Address
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Martin Kussmann,
Nuritas Ltd., Ireland
Session Chair
Session Chair
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Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Session Chair
Session Chair
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Hannelore Daniel,
Technische Universität München, Germany
Session Chair
Session Chair
José M. Ordovás,
Tufts University, USA
Human Health, Genes and Diet
Human Health, Genes and Diet
10:00—12:15
The Interaction between Human Genome, Diet and Environment
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Martin Kussmann,
Nuritas Ltd., Ireland
Session Chair
Session Chair
Claudio Franceschi,
University of Bologna, Italy
Genes and Environment for Human Longevity
Genes and Environment for Human Longevity
Leroy E. Hood,
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Systems Medicine and Proactive P4 Medicine: Transforming Healthcare and Nutrition through Wellness
Systems Medicine and Proactive P4 Medicine: Transforming Healthcare and Nutrition through Wellness
Liping Zhao,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Rutgers University, USA
Dietary Modulation of Gut Microbiota for Obesity Management: From Association to Causation to Translation
Dietary Modulation of Gut Microbiota for Obesity Management: From Association to Causation to Translation
Alexander M. Vaiserman,
Institute of Gerontology, Ukraine
Short Talk: Developmental Nutritional Programming of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence from the Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933
Short Talk: Developmental Nutritional Programming of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence from the Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933
17:00—19:00
Translational Models for Human Nutrition and Health
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Kendal Hirschi,
Baylor College Medicine, USA
Session Chair
Session Chair
Vijayalakshmi Varma,
National Center for Toxicological Research, FDA, USA
Adipocyte Responses to Fructose: A Characterization Using Systems Biology Approaches
Adipocyte Responses to Fructose: A Characterization Using Systems Biology Approaches
Aldons J. Lusis,
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Systems Genetics Analysis of Host-Gut Microbiota Interactions
Systems Genetics Analysis of Host-Gut Microbiota Interactions
Patrick J. Stover,
Cornell University, USA
In Search of a Common Pathway for Folic Acid-Responsive Neural Tube Defects, Neurodegeneration and Cancer
In Search of a Common Pathway for Folic Acid-Responsive Neural Tube Defects, Neurodegeneration and Cancer
Sumei Hu,
Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Ireland
Short Talk: The Impact of Milk Derived Bioactives on Glycemic Management
Short Talk: The Impact of Milk Derived Bioactives on Glycemic Management
19:00—20:00
Networking Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.
09:00—12:15
Human Nutritional and Lifestyle Interventions
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Patrick J. Stover,
Cornell University, USA
Session Chair
Session Chair
Hannelore Daniel,
Technische Universität München, Germany
Characterising Normal Human Metabolism
Characterising Normal Human Metabolism
Ben van Ommen,
TNO, Netherlands
Diet, Systems Flexibility and My Optimal Health
Diet, Systems Flexibility and My Optimal Health
Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
The Genomics of Micronutrient Requirements
The Genomics of Micronutrient Requirements
Robert Zeigler,
IRRI, USA
Rice as a Tool to Improve Nutrition for the World's Poor
Rice as a Tool to Improve Nutrition for the World's Poor
Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer,
University of Trento COSBI, Italy
Short Talk: Network-Based Analysis of Cofactor-Protein Interactions in Nutrition and Complex Diseases
Short Talk: Network-Based Analysis of Cofactor-Protein Interactions in Nutrition and Complex Diseases
Namita Parikshit Mahalle,
Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Center, India
Short Talk: A Study of Nutritional Factors and its Relation with Insulin Resistance and Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease in Indian Population
Short Talk: A Study of Nutritional Factors and its Relation with Insulin Resistance and Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease in Indian Population
17:00—19:00
Capturing and Monitoring Human Individuality
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Chris Evelo,
Maastricht University, Netherlands
Session Chair
Session Chair
Qiang Tian,
, USA
Wellness, Diseases and P4 Medicine
Wellness, Diseases and P4 Medicine
Rui Chen,
Stanford University, USA
Longitudinal Omics in Humans
Longitudinal Omics in Humans
Karsten Hiller,
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Short Talk: Combining Dried Blood Spots with Stable-Isotope Tracers to Profile Dynamics of Glucose Metabolism in Human Subjects
Short Talk: Combining Dried Blood Spots with Stable-Isotope Tracers to Profile Dynamics of Glucose Metabolism in Human Subjects
19:00—20:00
Networking Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.
09:00—12:00
From Nutrigenomics to Systems Nutrition
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Jim Kaput,
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Switzerland
Session Chair
Session Chair
Lorraine Brennan,
University College Dublin, Ireland
Metabotyping in Nutrition Research
Metabotyping in Nutrition Research
Marijana Radonjic,
EdgeLeap, Netherlands
From Disconnected Data to Emerging Insights: Unraveling Complexity of Food-Health Interactions
From Disconnected Data to Emerging Insights: Unraveling Complexity of Food-Health Interactions
Paloma K. Barrera,
INMEGEN, Mexico
Short Talk: Antioxidant-Related Gene Expression Changes by Cocoa Polyphenols Intake
Short Talk: Antioxidant-Related Gene Expression Changes by Cocoa Polyphenols Intake
Xiaojie Tan,
Waters, China
Short Talk: Markers of Health: Molecular Phenotyping Unveils the Healthy Biosignature of “Omega-3” Transgenic Mice
Short Talk: Markers of Health: Molecular Phenotyping Unveils the Healthy Biosignature of “Omega-3” Transgenic Mice
17:00—19:00
Nutrition 2.0 - Translation into Solutions for Human Health
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Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Session Chair
Session Chair
Juan B. Ochoa Gautier,
Nestle Health Science S1216, USA
Personalized Nutrition in Critical Care
Personalized Nutrition in Critical Care
Xu Lin,
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Genetic Variants, Nutrient-Related Biomarkers on Metabolic Diseases in Chinese
Genetic Variants, Nutrient-Related Biomarkers on Metabolic Diseases in Chinese
Maria-Carlota Dao,
Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, ICAN, France
Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Risks
Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Risks
Michael Fenech,
CSIRO Food and Nutrition, Australia
Short Talk: Plasma Micronutrient Levels and Telomere Length in Children
Short Talk: Plasma Micronutrient Levels and Telomere Length in Children
19:00—20:00
Networking Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.
09:00—10:10
Global Nutrition and Sustainability
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Ben van Ommen,
TNO, Netherlands
Session Chair
Session Chair
Jim Kaput,
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Switzerland
Enabling Nutrient Security and Sustainability through Systems Research
Enabling Nutrient Security and Sustainability through Systems Research
Nina V. Fedoroff,
Pennsylvania State University, USA
The Safety, Nutritional Value, and Sustainability of Organically and Conventionally Grown Food
The Safety, Nutritional Value, and Sustainability of Organically and Conventionally Grown Food
10:30—12:00
Panel Discussion: Perspectives and Needs for research in the Food, Diet and Health Relationship
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Martin Kussmann,
Nuritas Ltd., Ireland
Session Chair
Session Chair
Jim Kaput,
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Switzerland
Ben van Ommen,
TNO, Netherlands
Lorraine Brennan,
University College Dublin, Ireland
Claudio Franceschi,
University of Bologna, Italy
14:00—16:00
Workshop
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Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Session Chair
Session Chair
G. Bhanuprakash Reddy,
National Institute of Nutrition, India
Influence of Micronutrients on Biochemical Pathways Involved in Diabetic Complications
Influence of Micronutrients on Biochemical Pathways Involved in Diabetic Complications
Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran,
National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India
Dietary Intake, Nutritional Status and Relationship to Serum Lipids among Antiretroviral Naïve HIV-Infected Children in South India
Dietary Intake, Nutritional Status and Relationship to Serum Lipids among Antiretroviral Naïve HIV-Infected Children in South India
Neil A. Hanchard,
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, USA
Dna Methylation Changes in Severe Childhood Malnutrition
Dna Methylation Changes in Severe Childhood Malnutrition
Shuxin Han,
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Circadian Control of Bile Acid Synthesis by a KLF15-Fgf15 Axis
Circadian Control of Bile Acid Synthesis by a KLF15-Fgf15 Axis
Efrat Monsonego Ornan,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nutritional Aspects of Skeletal Development
Nutritional Aspects of Skeletal Development
Abena S. Amoah,
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana
Breastfeeding Duration and Asthma in Urban Schoolchildren in Ghana
Breastfeeding Duration and Asthma in Urban Schoolchildren in Ghana
Edwin Andres Higuita,
Corporación Universitaria Remington, Colombia
Immunomodulation of T Cells Subpopulations and NK Cells in Elderly Adults during a 12 Weeks Intervention with a Nutritional Complement Enriched with Biotechnologically Ganoderma lucidum Extracted Beta Gluc
Immunomodulation of T Cells Subpopulations and NK Cells in Elderly Adults during a 12 Weeks Intervention with a Nutritional Complement Enriched with Biotechnologically Ganoderma lucidum Extracted Beta Gluc
Pieter Johan Giesbertz,
Technische Universität München, Germany
Metabolomic Signatures of Obesity and Diabetes Revealed in Corresponding Genetic Mouse Models
Metabolomic Signatures of Obesity and Diabetes Revealed in Corresponding Genetic Mouse Models
17:00—19:00
Joint Session with Grand Challenges and Keystone Symposia
Godfrey Oakley,
Emory University, USA
Epidemic Folic Acid Preventable Spina Bifida and Anencephaly--Important Preventable Contribution to Perinatal, Neonatal, Infant and Under 5 Child Mortality
Epidemic Folic Acid Preventable Spina Bifida and Anencephaly--Important Preventable Contribution to Perinatal, Neonatal, Infant and Under 5 Child Mortality
Daniel L. Marks,
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Birth, Growth and Development
A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Birth, Growth and Development
19:00—22:00
Social Hour with Grand Challenges and Keystone Symposia
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.
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