24 Aug2021

Online NuGO week 2021

. Written by Meike Bunger. Posted in NuGO Activities, NuGO News, Uncategorised

here you find the updated programme:

6th of September 2021

Session 1: Immunometabolism – From mechanisms to human interventions

Chairs: Stine Ulven & Michael Müller

  • Dr. Quirijn de Mast (RadboudUMC, NL), Fibre-poor Western diets fuel inflammation
  • Dr. Rinke Stienstra (WUR, NL), Environmental Signals Influencing Immunometabolism in Diabetes
  • Prof. Matthias B. Schulze (DIFE, GE), Global pandemics interconnected — Obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19
  • Prof. Ana M Valdes (Univ. of Nottingham, UK), Microbiome composition as a mediator of the link between diet and systemic inflammation: the PREDICT studies

7th of September 2021

Session 2: How to feed the immune system – the role of nutrients and food bioactives for the immune system

Chairs: Lydia Afman & Manuel Suárez Recio

  • Prof. Andrew Macpherson (Univ. of Bern, CH), Nutritional effects on microbiota evolution
  • Prof. Philip Calder (Univ. of Southampton, UK), Role of micronutrients for the immune system and COVID-19
  • Prof. Jason Matthews (UIO, NO), The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: an environmental sensor integrating immune responses in health and disease
  • Prof. Simin Meydani (Tufts, USA), Nutritional Modulation of Immune Function: Analysis of Evidence, Mechanisms, and Clinical Relevance
  • Prof. Christoph Wilhelm (Univ. of Bonn, GE): Fasting as an essential regulator of immune responses

8th of September 2021

Session 3: Nutrigenomics (precision nutrition) of the immune system (inflammation)

Chairs:  Rosita Gabbianelli & Guy Vergeres

  • Prof. Helen Roche (UCD, IE), Regulating metabolic inflammation by nutritional modulation - A Nutrigenomics approach
  • Prof. Silvio Waschina (CAU, Kiel, GE), Precision Nutrition in Chronic Inflammation
  • Dr. Annie M. Curtis (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, IE), Immunometabolism around the Clock
!  Intriguing parts of the programme that will be scheduled soon !
  • Presentations from the Young scientist competition, abstract submission deadline: 31st July 2021-> CLOSED
  • An interactive poster presentation of registered abstracts
  • Presentations from the NEW NuGO members
  • An online networking event organized by NuGO
  • An online breakfast networking event organized by ECN
  • Presentations by the ECN board

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