Nutritional Immunology: Role in Health and Disease

Nutritional Immunology: Role in Health and Disease

July 26-July 31, 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

Organizers:

Melinda A. Beck, PhD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Philip C. Calder, PhD

University of Southampton

Southampton, UK

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Time / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Welcome Reception
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. / DINNER
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. / Keynote Speaker / Opening General Session: Tracking antigen-specific CD4+ T cells / Marc K. Jenkins, University of Minnesota. Past President of The American Association of Immunologists (2013-2014)

Monday, July 27, 2015

Time / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. / BREAKFAST
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Session 1: Cutting Edge Research In Nutritional Immunology / Chair: Simin Meydani, Tufts University
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. / Using omics approaches to understand nutrition-inflammation interactions / Michael Muller, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
9:35 a.m.-10:10 a.m. / The immune system as a sensor of the metabolic state / Ajay Chawla, Stanford University
10:10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. / Morning Coffee Breakand
Group Photo
10:50 a.m.-11:25 a.m. / New understandings of macrophage biology / Liza Makowski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:25 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Pro-resolving mediators formed from omega-3 fatty acids / Joan Claria, University of Barcelona
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / Free time
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Poster Session
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / DINNER
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / Session 2: Obesity, inflammation and immunity / Chair: A. Catherine Ross, Penn State University
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. / Obesity impairs the immune response to influenza / Melinda A. Beck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m. / Immune profiling in metabolic disease / Giuseppe Matarese, IESOS-CNR, Naples, Italy
8:10 p.m.- 8:25 p.m. / Evening coffee break
8:25 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / The role of white-brown adipocyte plasticity in inflammation / Savierio Cinti, University of Ancona, Italy
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / New insights into the role of adipokines / GemaFruhbeck, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Time / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. / BREAKFAST
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Session 3: Nutrition, immunity and chronic age-related diseases / Chair: Melinda A. Beck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. / The ageing immune system: how can it be assessed? / Graham Pawelec, University of Tübingen, Germany
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a. m. / Neuroinflammation and ageing / Jessica Teeling, University of Southampton, UK
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. / Morning Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.- 11:05 a. m. / Micronutrients and asthma / Graham Devereux, University of Aberdeen, UK
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. / Vitamin D as a master regulator of immune function / Martin Hewison, University of California, Los Angeles
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Discussion
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / Free time
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Poster Session
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / DINNER
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / Session 4: Gut immunology and the diet-microbiota-immune axis / Chair: ParveenYaqoob, University of Reading, UK
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. / Gut microbiota as a regulator of inflammatory tone in metabolic disease / Nathalie Delzenne, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m. / Probiotics and the ageing immune system-new insights / ParveenYaqoob, University of Reading, UK
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m. / Evening coffee break
8:25 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. / Modifying gut microbiota can prevent allergic diseases / Erika Isolauri, University of Turku, Finland
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / How do probiotic organisms interact with the host? / Jerry Wells, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Wednesday, July 29,2015

Time a.m. – Time p.m. / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. / BREAKFAST
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Session 5: Early life nutritional influences on the immune system / Chair: Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. / Immune maturation factors in human breast milk / Angel Gil, University of Granada, Spain
9:35 a.m.- 10:10 a.m. / Early life programming of immune function alters later risk of non-communicable diseases / Susan Prescott, University of Western Australia, Perth
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. / Morning Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. / Impact of early environment on later immune and inflammatory responses / Thom McDade, Northwestern University
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. / Omega-3 fatty acids and immune programming / Philip Calder, University of Southampton, UK
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Discussion
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. / Business Meeting
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. / LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers/Expert
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / Free time
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Poster Session
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / DINNER
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / Session 6: Nutrition and immune cell signaling / Chair: Graham Pawelec, University of Tübingen, Germany
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. / Fatty acids, lipid rafts and antigen presentation / S. Raz Shaikh, University of East Carolina, Greenville, NC
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m. / Vitamin E, ceramides and T cell signaling / Simin Meydani, Tufts University
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m. / Evening Coffee Break
8:25 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / Phytochemical influences on immune cells in humans / Susan Percival, University of Florida, Gainsville
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m. / How vitamin A controls T cell differentiation and functionality / A. Catherine Ross, Penn State University

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Time a.m. – Time p.m. / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. / BREAKFAST
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Session 7: Nutrient-gene interactions in the immune system / Chair: S. Raz Shaikh, University of East Carolina, Greenville, NC
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. / Zinc regulation of gene expression within the immune system / Lothar Rink, Aachen University, Germany
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. / Vitamin D and immune mediated diseases / MargheritaCantorna, Penn State University
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. / Morning Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. / Selenium as a regulator of immune and inflammatory responses / Peter Hoffman, University of Honolulu, HI
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. / Fatty acid interactions with the inflammasome / Helen Roche, University of Dublin
11:40 a.m. – 12:00p.m. / Discussion
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / Free time
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Poster Session
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / DINNER
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / Session 8: The metabolic cost of infection and inflammation / Chair: Philip Calder, University of Southampton, UK
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. / Metabolic regulation of T cells / Jeff Rathmell, Duke University
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m. / Undernutrition, infection and growth impairment / Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, U K
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m. / Evening coffee break
8:25 p.m. –9:00 p.m. / Lymphocyte metabolism and the role of mTOR / Hongbo Chi, St. Jude, Memphis, TN
9:00 p.m. – 9:25 p.m. / Mitochondrial respiratory capacity as a critical regulator of T cell memory development / Erika Pearce, Washington Universtiy, St. Louis, MO

Friday, July 31, 2015

Time a.m. – Time p.m. / Title/Topic Event / Speaker, affiliation (or location, if event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. / BREAKFAST
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Conference Registration
9:00 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. / Session 9: Nutritional Immunology- old challenges require new approaches / Chair: MargheritaCantorna, Penn State University
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. / The need to grasp new technologies / HaraldRenz, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. / The challenge of biomarkers / Ben van Ommen, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
10:10 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. / Morning Coffee Break
10:25 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. / Nutritional immunology: A multi-dimensional approach / David Raubenheimer, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. / Panel Discussion
12:00 p.m. / LUNCH to Go
And DEPARTURES

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