Hosted by the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at Illinois
October 3-4, 2023, Urbana, IL
Our annual event was held on October 3-4, 2023 on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. This included an Innovation Day with oral and poster presentations, an External Partners Program meeting, an External Advisory Committee meeting, and opportunities for tours of campus facilities and meetings with researchers.
Recordings:
- Welcome
- Session 1: Data and Technology Opportunities in Personalized Nutrition
- Session 2: Accelerating Personalized Nutrition Through Social & Behavioral Sciences (4 of 5 presentations are included in the recording as Prof. Teran-Garcia’s presentation contained unpublished data)
- Session 3 – Panel Discussion: Opportunities for Gathering and Leveraging Personalized Nutrition Data
See the Event Booklet and Agenda for information about the presenters and the October 2023 Newsletter for photos from the event.
Agenda
| Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | |
| 8:00 – 10:30 AM Live-Streamed |
External Advisory Committee Meeting (members only) Including Breakfast The Morgan-Caterpillar Room (130), ACES LIAC |
| 8:00 – 10:00 AM | Pre-scheduled Tours and meetings with researchers |
| 10:00 AM – Noon | Lunch and Poster Reception Atrium, IGB Research Building (#4 on map) |
| Noon – 1:00 PM Live-Streamed |
Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Gil Blander, PhD, Founder and CSO, InsideTracker “Longitudinal Longevity Data Analysis – Insights and Lessons from a Decade of Insidetrack-ing” IGB 612/614 (Additional seating in IGB 607) |
| 1:00 – 1:30 PM | Break (Walk to ACES Library) |
| 1:30 – 5:30 PM
1:30 – 1:40 PM |
Personalized Nutrition Innovation Day Monsanto Room (008), ACES LIACWelcome Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD, Director of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative, and Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) |
| 1:45 – 2:45 PM Live-Streamed |
Session 1: Data and Technology Opportunities in Personalized Nutrition Moderator: Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD |
| Bruce Y. Lee, MD MBA, Professor of Health Policy and Management, City University of New York School of Public Health Keynote: “How AI, Data Science, and Systems Approaches Can Help Achieve More Personalized Nutrition” |
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| Sunnie Southern, MS, RD, LDN, Go-to-Market Product Management Lead Verily, an Alphabet precision health tech company Keynote: “Leveraging Personalized Nutrition as a Catalyst for Precision Health” |
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| 2:45 – 3:10 PM | Break and Refreshments The Heritage Room (107), ACES LIAC |
| 3:10 – 4:25 PM Live-Streamed |
Session 2: Accelerating Personalized Nutrition Through Social and Behavioral Sciences Moderator: Eva Pomerantz, PhD, Director, Center for Social and Behavioral Science, and Professor, Department of Psychology, Illinois |
| Machiel Reinders, PhD, Senior Researcher, Consumer Behavior and Marketing, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen Economic Research “Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Data in Personalized Nutrition” |
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| Joshua Anthony, PhD, Founder/CEO, Nlumn “We Talked to More Than 3000 People About Personalized Nutrition and Health and They Said…” |
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| Mariette Abrahams, PhD, MBA, Founder/CEO, Qina “Balancing Priorities – Why We Need to Blend in Social and Behavioural Data to Unlock True Consumer Behaviour” |
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| Margarita Teran-Garcia, MD, PhD, Assistant Dean & Research Assistant Professor, Extension, Illinois “MEXIMEDI Diet: A Personalized and Cultural Adaptation to Improve Health Outcomes in Mexican Adults” |
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| John W. Erdman, Jr. PhD, Professor Emeritus, Food Science & Human Nutrition, Illinois, Chair of the Standing Committee for the Review of the Dietary Reference Intakes Framework “Revising the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI’s) – Update” |
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| 4:30 – 5:20 PM Live-Streamed |
Session 3 – Panel Discussion: Opportunities for Gathering and Leveraging Personalized Nutrition Data Moderator: Cathy Blake, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Information Sciences, IllinoisPanelists: Mariette Abrahams Joshua Anthony Bruce Y. Lee Machiel Reinders Sunnie Southern |
| 5:20 – 5:30 PM | Wrap-up Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD |
| 5:30 – 7:30 PM | Reception with Hors d’oeuvres The Heritage Room (107), ACES LIAC |
| Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | |
| 8:00 – 11:00 AM Live-Streamed |
External Partners Meeting (members only) Including Breakfast, IGB 612/614 |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Lunch IGB 612/614 |
| 12:30 – 3:00 PM | Pre-scheduled Tours and meetings with researchers |