Personalised Nutrition Conference presentations
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Plenary Program

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Day 1 - Wednesday 2nd November 2005

Jürgen Lucas

Welcome and Introduction
Michael Müller

Nutrigenomics: from molecular nutrition to the prevention of disease

Hans-Georg Joost

Metabolic syndromes, genetics and personalised nutrition

11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel session 1: Accessible nutrigenomics science for stakeholders: what’s it all about?

Siân Astley

An introduction to nutrigenomics developments and trends

Joanne Lunn

The European Food Information Resource Network (EuroFIR) Diet, genomics and the metabolic syndrome: an integrated nutrition, agro-food, social and economic analysis (LIPGENE)

Parallel session 2: Optimising nutrition using nutrigenomics: single nucleotide polymorphisms and the diet
Sue Fairweather-Tait

Effect of SNPs on iron metabolism

Ellen Kampman

Folate, other B vitamins, SNPs in MTHFR and bowel cancer risk

Anne-Marie Minihane

Diet-gene interaction and CVD risk: focus on genes encoding lipid metabolism

Parallel session 3: Early biomarkers of metabolic stress

Jaap Keijer

An approach for in vivo effect assessment of food bioactives: quercetin bioactivity

Jan Kopecky

Induction of mitochondrial biogenesis by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in white adipose tissue

Cinzia Stella

Identification of early biomarkers: The challenges of modelling mammalian bio-complexity

13:00-15:00 Lunch, Exhibitions, and Poster Session 1
15:00-17:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel session 1: Smarter nutrition: the food industry and nutrigenomics

Laura Ruth

Nutrigenomics: Impacts on markets, diets, and health - Biotechnology and Diagnostics

Kathie Wrick

Nutrigenomics: Impacts on markets, diets, and health - Food Industry Perspective

Rosalynn Gill-Garrison

Personalized Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities

Antoine de Saizieu

Moving towards personalised nutrition: a food ingredient supplier perspective

Oswaldo da Costa e Silva

Personalized Nutrition: an integrative process to success

Parallel session 2: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) – what can we do with this information?

Edith Feskens

Introduction

Eline Slagboom

Molecular epidemiology, candidate genes versus genome-wide screens

Aeilko Zwinderman

Statistics and SNPs: multilocus methods

Parallel session 3: Food and metabolic imprinting (Room Victoria)
Siân Robinson

Metabolic programming during pregnancy: epidemiological studies in humans

Simon Langley-Evans

Metabolic programming during pregnancy: studies in animal models

Gérard Ailhaud

Fatty acid composition as an early determinant of childhood obesity

 17:00-17:30 Coffee break

17:30-19:00 Plenary Lectures

Plenary Lectures

Marju Orho-Melander

Can we use single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data related to Type II diabetes for the development of personalised nutrition concepts in the prevention of diabetes?

Antonio Vidal-Puig

PGC1 and nutritional balance

Alistair Kent

Nutrigenomics and Health Gain: A patient and family perspective in a sceptical world

End of Day 1

Day 2 - Thursday 3rd November 2005

Andreu Palou

The obesity genes: Is there a need/ chance for personalised nutrition in the anti-obesity war?

Kevin Cashman

Bone health, genetics and personalised nutrition

Kenneth S. Kornman

Nutrient-gene interactions in the control of inflammatory diseases: The influence of gene polymorphisms

Ian Johnson

Gut health, genetics and personalised nutrition

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel session 1: Nutritional genomics - Ethical aspects

Ulf Görman

Ethical issues raised by personalised nutrition

Mark Cutter

Legal issues related to personalised nutrition

Eve-Marie Engels

Biobanks, ethics and personalised nutrition

Parallel session 2: Genes, diets and cancer

John Mathers

Overview of genes, diet and cancer

John Hesketh

Selenium polymorphisms and colon cancer

Jerry Wells

Immuno-modulation, inflammation and gut health

13:00-15:00 Lunch, exhibitions, and Poster Session 2
15:00-17:00 Global approaches to the personalised nutrition challenge

Jim Kaput

Strategic international alliances to harness nutritional genomics for public and personal health

Lynne Ferguson

Biodiversity and gut health

Michael Mayne

Identifying novel antioxidants from sustainable Canadian sources for human and animal use

End of Day 2

Day 3: Friday 4th November 2005

 

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

How far is genetic epidemiology? What kind of methods do we need?

Udo Seedorf

Genes, diet and public health

Ben van Ommen

Personalized nutrition, the systems biology approach

Laura Bouman

General introduction

Keith Grimaldi

Industry perspective on personalised nutrition

Amber Ronteltap

Consumer perceptions of personalised nutrition

Parallel session 2: Reducing future health costs: government policies and personalised nutrition

Christoph Nabholz

Lifestyle versus genetics: will advances in genetics change risk assessment?An insurance perspective

Perozzi & Vergilli

Introducing "Genes and Nutrition"

 

 

Hannelore Daniel

Nutrigenomics: Scientific forecast

Frank Desiere

Nutrigenomics: Society forecast

Day 3: Friday 4th November 2005

 
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