2015 – Diet and Microbiota in Health and Disease
Wednesday July 8, 2015
Welcome
W. Allan Walker, M.D.
Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition; Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School; Director, Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital
Keynote Address: “Diet and Microbiota in Health and Disease”
Harry J. Flint, Ph.D.
Professor, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
SESSION I:
Diet and Microbiota in Health and Disease
Moderator:
W. Allan Walker, M.D.
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
The Microbiome During Pregnancy
(Recording to come)
Omry Koren, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine Bar Ilan University, Israel
The Role of Breast Milk in Early Intestinal Colonization
W. Allan Walker, M.D.
Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition; Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School, Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Processed Foods
Andrew Gerwitz, Ph.D.
University Center Professor, Center for Inflammation, Immunity, & Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University
Diet, Microbiota and the Elderly
Ian B. Jeffery, Ph.D.
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College, Cork, Ireland
SESSION II:
Diet and Microbial Metabolites
Moderator:
George L. Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D.,
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
George L. Blackburn, M.D., PhD.
Nutritional Modulation of the Metabalome
(No recording available)
Bruce S. Kristal, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hosptial
Short-chain Fatty Acids and T-Regulatory Cells
(No recording available)
Chang H. Kim, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology and Section Head, Microbiology & Immunology Department of Comparative Pathiobiology, Purdue Veterinary Medicine, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University
High Fiber Diets, Microbiota and Allergic Inflammation in the Airways
Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary) and Microbiology/Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Center
Complex Carbohydrate Degradation by Gut Microbes:
Roles in Health and Disease
Eric Martens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
SESSION III:
Diet, Microbiome and Disease
Moderator:
Jon A. Vanderhoof, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
Diet and Intestinal Microbiome Implications of Disease
Lindsey G. Albenberg, D.O.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Gut Microbial Organ and its Role in Health
and Diet-induced Metabolic Diseases
Eugene B. Chang, M.D.
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine, Knapp Center for Biomedical Research, The University of Chicago
The Microbiome & Celiac Disease
Gloria Serena
Graduate Research Assistant, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Obesity
Lee M. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Session III Roundtable Discussion
W. Allan Walker, M.D.
This program was supported by unrestricted educational grants from:
The Conrad Taff Teaching Fund
Mead Johnston Pediatric Institute
The Dannon Company
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Nestle Infant Nutrition
The Peanut Institute
Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
S. Daniel Abraham Teaching Fund
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Presented by
Harvard Medical School Division of Nutrition
and Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health