Program
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- Sunday May 17
- Nutrigenetics in Practice: An intensive training course for licensed professionals only #ISNN15pract
(Martin Kohlmeier & Olivia Dong, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(Special registration required)
- Primer of genomics terms and principles
- Ethical and legal frameworks
- Inventory of high-utility gene variants
- Genotype-based nutrition counseling
- Afternoon session: Building the tools for nutrigenomic research
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
- Opening Ceremony (Raffaele De Caterina, Chieti, Italy)
- The significance of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics for clinical practice (Martin Kohlmeier, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
- A lifetime of genetic research (Oliver Smithies, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Nobel Laureate 2007) #ISNN15Smithies
- Individual micronutrient inadequacy promotes diseases of aging (Bruce Ames, Oakland, CA, USA) #ISNN15Ames
- Conversation: What young researchers should know
- Speakers' Dinner (by invitation only)
7:00pm
- ISNN Board meeting (by invitation only)
8:30pm
- Monday May 18
- Morning session #ISNN15LawEthics
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
- Introduction: Squaring ethics, privacy, law and policy (Eric Juengst, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
- Current legal protections of genomic information (Sonia Suter, Washington, D.C., USA)
- Balancing harms and benefits of nutrigenetics (Ulf Görman, Lund & Jönköping, Sweden)
- Beware the informational overload of healthcare providers (Richard Sharp, Rochester, MN, USA)
- Facilitator-led conversation
- Break & Poster Meet-ups
10:00 - 10:40 a.m.
- Genetic variation of one-carbon metabolism in health and disease #ISNN15OneCarb
10:40 - 11:40 a.m.
- Optimal one-carbon nutrition (Steve Zeisel, Kannapolis, NC, USA)
- MTHFR deficiency: implications for folate intake at both ends of the spectrum (Rima Rozen, Montreal, Canada)
- Genomic variation in one-carbon metabolism and cardiovascular diseases (Abbas Dehghan, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- Panel discussion (Zeisel, Rozen, Dehghan, Niculescu)
- Conclusions
- Workgroup: Tailoring Essential Fatty Acid Intakes #ISNN15EFA
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
- Background and charge (Hooman Allayee, Los Angeles, USA)
- Invited commentary (Mihai Niculescu, Kannapolis, USA)
- Discussions and preparation of draft report
- Workgroup: Individual Folate Intake Requirements #ISNN15Fol
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
- Background and charge by topic lead (Natalia Krupenko, Kannapolis, USA)
- Invited commentary (Rima Rozen, Montreal, Canada)
- Discussions and preparation of draft report
- Plenary session
2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
- Reporting back on Tailoring Essential Fatty Acid Intakes (Hooman Allayee, Los Angeles, USA) #ISNN15EFA
- Reporting back on Individual Folate Intake Requirements (Natalia Krupenko, Kannapolis, USA) #ISNN15Fol
- Discussions
- Afternoon session: Personal nutrition in practice #ISNN15PersNut
3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
- Introduction (Martin Kohlmeier, Chapel Hill, NC)
- Does personalizing improve dietary intake: lessons from the Food4me study (John Mathers, Newcastle, UK)
- Using genetic information for tailoring lipid-lowering interventions (Peter Jones, Winnipeg, Canada)
- Building a nutrigenetics practice (Ahmed El-Sohemy, Toronto, Canada)
- Computer-based personal nutrition guidance (Martin Kohlmeier, Kannapolis, NC, USA)
- The Network of Centers for Genetics, Nutrition, and Fitness for Health (Artemis Simopoulos, Washington, D.C., USA)
- Campus walking tour5:30 p.m.
- Congress Dinner & Entertainment
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday May 19
- Morning Session: Getting nutrigenetic interpretations right #ISNN15interp
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
- Introduction (Saroja Voruganti, Kannapolis, NC, USA)
- Empirical databases: Food4me (Alfredo Martinez, Pamplona, Spain)
- What population studies can and cannot tell us (Kari North, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
- Why we need nutrigenetics in intervention studies that fail (Steve Zeisel, Kannapolis, NC, USA)
- Innovative biosystems approaches in nutrigenetic research (Ben Van Ommen, Netherlands)
- Metabolomics x Genomics (Susan Sumner, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA)
- Break & Poster Meet-ups
10:00 - 10:40 a.m.
- Award-winning poster contributions
10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
- Workgroup: Genotype-Directed Weight Management #ISNN15Wt
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
- Background and charge (Alfredo Martinez, Pamplona, Spain)
- Invited commentary (Lu Qi, Cambridge, USA)
- Discussions
- Workgroup: Individual Caffeine Tolerance #ISNN15Caff
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
- Background and charge by topic lead (Raffaele De Caterina, Chieti, Italy)
- Invited commentary (Ahmed El-Sohemi, Toronto, Canada)
- Discussions
- Plenary session
2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
- Reporting back on Individual Caffeine Tolerance (Raffaele De Caterina, Chieti, Italy) #ISNN15Caff
- Reporting back on Genotype-Specific Weight Management (Alfredo Martinez, Pamplona, Spain) #ISNN15Wt
- Discussions
- Afternoon session: Epinutrigenomics for practical use #ISNN15Epigen
3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
- Introduction: Nutrigenomics for practical use (Folami Ideraabdullah, Kannapolis, USA)
- Nutritional and genetic effects on imprinted genes and repeat elements (Paul Haggarty, Aberdeen, UK)
- Challenges in population nutriepigenomics (Karin Michels, Boston, MA, USA)
- Nutri-Epigenomics - A tool for applied nutrition in cancer prevention? (Clarissa Gerhäuser, Heidelberg, Germany)
- Beyond "wrong" and "right" in Nutriepigenetics (Mihai Niculescu, Kannapolis, NC, USA)
- Facilitator-led conversation: Practical use?
- Congress Conclusion
5:30 p.m.
- Epilogue (Alfredo Martinez, Pamplona, Spain)
- Announcement of the 2016 ISNN Congress
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