Hosted by the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at Illinois
This event will be held at the ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center (ACES LIAC), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Our annual event will include an Innovation Day with oral and poster presentations, an External Advisory Committee meeting, and networking opportunities. The following day, we hold a private meeting with our External Partner member organizations.
Event Booklet
Agenda
Monday, September 23, 2024 | |
4:00 – 4:50 PM | Research Theme Discussion: Mining Large Datasets for Personalized Nutrition Research – All of Us, UK Biobank and Tapestry (invitation only) at Hyatt Place Hotel |
5:00 – 5:40 PM | Research Theme Discussion: Consumer & Health Behaviors (invitation only) at Hyatt Place Hotel |
6:00 PM | Dinner for External Advisory and External Partners (invitation only) |
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | |
8:00 -10:30 AM Live-Streamed |
External Advisory Committee Meeting (members only) The Morgan-Caterpillar Room (130), ACES Library, Information & Alumni Center |
8:00 – 10:30 AM | Individual meetings with researchers |
10:30 – 11:00 AM | Registration and refreshments The Heritage Room (107), ACES Library, Information & Alumni Center |
Live-Streamed
11:00 – 11:10 AM |
Personalized Nutrition Innovation Day – Future of Personalized Nutrition Welcome Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD, Director of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative, and Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) |
11:10- 11:50 AM | Keynote 1: NIH Office of Nutrition Research and Precision Nutrition Andrew A. Bremer, MD, MAS, PhD, Director, Office of Nutrition Research, National Institutes of Health |
11:50 AM –12:50 PM | Personalized Nutrition Research at Illinois Session 1 Moderator: Maria Jaromin, MS, MBA, Assistant Director for Healthcare Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Illinois |
Mining the Scientific Literature for Diet-Microbiome Associations Halil Kilicoglu, PhD, Associate Professor, iSchool, Illinois |
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Spatial Analysis to Develop Personalized Metabolic Interventions for Metastatic Tumors Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD, Associate Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, Illinois |
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Predictive Analytics in Cognitive Health: Customizing MIND Diet Intervention through Machine Learning Naiman Khan, PhD, RD, Associate Professor, Health and Kinesiology, Illinois Shreya Verma, MS, Graduate student, Health and Kinesiology, Illinois |
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12:50 – 1:50 PM | Lunch The Heritage Room (107), ACES Library, Information & Alumni Center |
1:50 – 2:30 PM | Keynote 2: Future of Personalized Nutrition Nard Clabbers, MSc, Founder/CEO, NCNC Nutrition Consultancy |
2:30 – 3:50 PM | Personalized Nutrition Research at Illinois Session 2 Moderator: Diego Hernandez-Saavedra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health and Kinesiology |
Digital Solutions for Correcting Consumers’ Misconceptions about Food and Nutrition Leona Yi-Fan Su, PhD, Associate Professor, Advertising, Illinois |
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Individual Gastrointestinal Motility Responses to Whole Grain Consumption in Relation to Metabolic Health Brett Loman, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences, Illinois |
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Application of Biosensor Technology and the Activate Capture and Digital Counting Assay for Minimally Invasive Detection of microRNA (miRNA) in Human Milk Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD, Director of the Personalized Nutrition Brian Cunningham, PhD, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Illinois |
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Optimizing Immune-Modifying Microbial Metabolites in Fermented Foods Jacob Allen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health and Kinesiology, Illinois |
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3:50 – 4:20 PM | Break and refreshments The Heritage Room (107), ACES Library, Information & Alumni Center |
4:20-5:15 PM | Panel Discussion: Future Directions of Personalized Nutrition Moderator: Mariette Abrahams, PhD, RD, MBA, Founder/CEO, Qina |
Panelists Sean Adams, PhD, Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research, Dept. of Surgery, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine Gil Blander, PhD, Founder and CSO, InsideTracker Nard Clabbers, MSc, Founder/CEO, NCNC Nutrition Consultancy Bibiana Garcia-Bailo, PhD, Sr. Nutrition Scientist, Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, General Mills Purna Kashyap, MBBS, Professor and Consultant, Mayo Clinic Sunnie Southern, MS, RD, LDN, Founder/CEO, Viable Synergy |
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5:15 – 5:30 PM | Wrap-up – Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD |
5:30 -7:30 PM | Reception with Hors d’oeuvres and Poster Presentations The Heritage Room (107), ACES Library, Information & Alumni Center |
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | |
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 meetings with researchers |