Thursday, October 21

7:00 PM

Conference Registration

8:00 PM

Welcome Reception and Dinner

Friday, October 22

8:00 AM

Breakfast

8:55 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

SESSION I

Diet and Nutrition Policy

Chair: Patrick Stover

9:00 AM

1

Metabolic benefits of eicosapentaenoic acid in diet-induced obese mice are independent of weight loss

Mandana Pahlavani, Hanna Davis, Emily Miller, Latha Ramalingam, Shane Scoggin, and Naima Moustaid-Moussa

9:30 AM

2

Time course effects of oral iron ingestion on absorbed iron and the plasma hepcidin response

Stephen R. Hennigar

10:00 AM

3

Do serum lipid responses to whole-food dietary interventions differ by cholesterol “absorber” or “synthesizer” status?

Claire Berryman and Penny Kris-Etherton

10:30 AM

4

Do America's one-size-fits-all  nutritional guidelines contribute to high rates of hypertension and kidney failure in African-Americans (of slave descent)?  

Constance Hilliard

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

SESSION II

Diet and Nutrition Policy

Chair: Patrick Stover

11:30 AM

5

Dietary approaches for healthy aging:  From calorie restriction to intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating

Eric  Ravussin

12:00 PM

6

The Effects of Micronutrient Genetic Testing and Personalized Nutrition on Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

Shannon Galyean, Emily Salas-Groves, Allison Childress, and Dylan Bailey

12:30 PM

7

Approaches to metabolomic profiling of early indicators of disease and understanding influences from diet and the microbiome

Clary Clish

1:00 PM

8

Metabolic phenotyping and precision nutrition

Lydia Afman

1:30 PM

Lunch and Informal Discussions

7:30 PM

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 23

8:00 AM

Breakfast

SESSION III

Systems Metabolism

Chair: Martha Field

9:00 AM

9

Dietary control of intestinal stem cells in physiology and disease

Omer Yilmaz

9:30 AM

10

The role of B vitamins in maintenance of mitochondrial DNA integrity

Martha Field, Joanna L. Fiddler, Katarina E. Heyden, and Yuwen Xiu

10:00 AM

11

Metabolic Regulation of Erythritol synthesis, a Biomarker of Cardiometabolic Disease

Semira Ortiz and Martha Field

10:30 AM

12

Deciphering metabolic reprogramming in cancer

Sophia Lunt

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

SESSION IV

Systems Metabolism

Chair: Martha Field

11:30 AM

13

Branched chain amino acid metabolism in Adipose Tissue and the impact of obesity

Martina Wallace

12:00 PM

14

TBA

Thalis Papagiannakopoulos

12:30 PM

15

Cancer specific amino acid metabolism

Oliver Maddocks

1:00 PM

16

Cysteine: a driver of Clostridioides difficile pathology?

Alexander Heinz and Karsten Hiller

1:30 PM

17

non-coding RNA-directed changes in skeletal muscle metabolism

Anna Krook

2:00 PM

Lunch and Informal Discussions

7:30 PM

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

Sunday, October 24

8:00 AM

Breakfast

SESSION V

Nutrition, Immunity and Chronic Disease

Chair: Christian Metallo

9:00 AM

18

Altered serine and glycine metabolism in diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Christian Metallo

9:30 AM

19

Insulin Resistance and Approaches of Precision Nutrition in Control of Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Shaodong Guo

10:00 AM

20

Nuclear One-Carbon Metabolism and Folate-Associated Pathologies

Patrick Stover

10:30 AM

21

SHMT1 and the etiology of folate-responsive neural tube defects

Kendra Tiani, Martha Field, and Patrick Stover

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

SESSION VI

Nutrition, Immunity and Chronic Disease

Chair: Christian Metallo

11:30 AM

22

Dynamic roles of ghrelin signaling in nutrient sensing and immunometabolism

Yuxiang Sun

12:00 PM

23

Unraveling layered immunity:  how perturbation of hematopoietic development shapes disease susceptibility

Anna Beaudin, Diego Lopez, April Apostol, Eric Lebish, Clint Valencia, Brian Krum, Gloria Hernandez, Mari-Carmen Romero-Mulero, and Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid

12:30 PM

24

A role of DJ-1/PARK7 in central energy metabolism of T-cells

Rudi Balling

1:00 PM

Lunch and Informal Discussions

3:00 PM

City Tour

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:30 PM

7:30 PM

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

Monday, October 25

8:00 AM

Breakfast

SESSION VII

Personalized Nutrition

Chair: Karsten Hiller

9:00 AM

25

Prevention and therapy for chronic diseases using data-driven personalized nutrition

Momo Vuyisich

9:30 AM

26

Sex and genetic background regulate response to a ketogenic dietary intervention in mice

Anna Salvador and David Threadgill

10:00 AM

27

Participant characteristics contributed to variable responsiveness to personalized healthy food incentives -A secondary analysis of a randomized crossover trial

Qisi Yao, Haley Parker, Maya Vadiveloo, and Anne  Thorndike

10:30 AM

28

The non-essential amino acid, serine, is essential for retinal health

Marin Gantner, Michal Handzlik, Regis Fallon, Alex Ideguchi, Courtney Green, Kevin Eade, Martina Wallace, Christian Metallo, and Martin Friedlander

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

SESSION VIII

Personalized Nutrition

Chair: Karsten Hiller

11:30 AM

29

The Use of Dietary Supplements during Pregnancy: A Case Study for Precision Nutrition

Regan Bailey

12:00 PM

30

Functional, gene-nutrient and health effects of optimal riboflavin status

Mary Ward

12:30 PM

31

Identification of gene-diet interactions impacting glycemic biomarkers in the multi-ethnic TOPMed cohorts

Kenneth Westerman, Maura Walker, Jordi Merino, Han Chen, and Alisa Manning

Maria Traka

1:30 PM

Closing Remarks

1:35 PM

Lunch and Informal Discussions

7:30 PM

Farewell Dinner

Tuesday, October 26

8:00 AM

Breakfast

Departure