2024 Personalized Nutrition Innovation Day – Future of Personalized Nutrition

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
Spatial Analysis to Develop Personalized Metabolic Interventions for Metastatic Tumors
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD, Associate Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, Illinois
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
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
Individual Gastrointestinal Motility Responses to Whole Grain Consumption in Relation to Metabolic Health
Brett Loman, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences, Illinois
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
Optimizing Immune-Modifying Microbial Metabolites in Fermented Foods
Jacob Allen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health and Kinesiology, Illinois
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
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