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
4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Conference Registration
Welcome Reception
DINNER
Keynote Speaker / Opening General
Session: Tracking antigen-specific
CD4+ T cells
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
Marc K. Jenkins, University of
Minnesota. Past President of The
American Association of Immunologists
(2013-2014)
Monday, July 27, 2015
Time
Title/Topic Event
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
BREAKFAST
Conference Registration
Session 1: Cutting Edge Research In
Nutritional Immunology
Using omics approaches to
understand nutrition-inflammation
interactions
The immune system as a sensor of
the metabolic state
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
9:35 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
9 February 2016
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
Chair: Simin Meydani, Tufts University
Michael Muller, Wageningen
University, The Netherlands
Ajay Chawla, Stanford University
10:10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
10:50 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
11:25 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m.
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m.
8:10 p.m.- 8:25 p.m.
8:25 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
Morning Coffee Break and
Group Photo
New understandings of
macrophage biology
Pro-resolving mediators formed
from omega-3 fatty acids
LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
Free time
Poster Session
Conference Registration
DINNER
Session 2: Obesity, inflammation
and immunity
Obesity impairs the immune
response to influenza
Immune profiling in metabolic
disease
Evening coffee break
The role of white-brown adipocyte
plasticity in inflammation
New insights into the role of
adipokines
Liza Makowski, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joan Claria, University of Barcelona
Chair: A. Catherine Ross, Penn State
University
Melinda A. Beck, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Giuseppe Matarese, IESOS-CNR,
Naples, Italy
Savierio Cinti, University of Ancona,
Italy
Gema Fruhbeck, University of Navarra,
Pamplona, Spain
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Time
Title/Topic Event
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a. m.
BREAKFAST
Conference Registration
Session 3: Nutrition, immunity and
chronic age-related diseases
The ageing immune system: how
can it be assessed?
Neuroinflammation and ageing
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.- 11:05 a. m.
Micronutrients and asthma
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Vitamin D as a master regulator of
immune function
Discussion
LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
Free time
Poster Session
Conference Registration
DINNER
Session 4: Gut immunology and the
diet-microbiota-immune axis
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
9 February 2016
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
Chair: Melinda A. Beck, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graham Pawelec, University of
Tübingen, Germany
Jessica Teeling, University of
Southampton, UK
Graham Devereux, University of
Aberdeen, UK
Martin Hewison, University of
California, Los Angeles
Chair: Parveen Yaqoob, University of
Reading, UK
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m.
Gut microbiota as a regulator of
inflammatory tone in metabolic
disease
Probiotics and the ageing immune
system-new insights
Evening coffee break
Modifying gut microbiota can
prevent allergic diseases
How do probiotic organisms
interact with the host?
Nathalie Delzenne, Catholic University
of Louvain, Brussels
Time a.m. – Time p.m.
Title/Topic Event
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
BREAKFAST
Conference Registration
Session 5: Early life nutritional
influences on the immune system
Immune maturation factors in
human breast milk
Early life programming of immune
function alters later risk of noncommunicable diseases
Morning Coffee Break
Impact of early environment on later
immune and inflammatory
responses
Omega-3 fatty acids and immune
programming
Discussion
Business Meeting
LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers/Expert
Free time
Poster Session
Conference Registration
DINNER
Session 6: Nutrition and immune
cell signaling
Fatty acids, lipid rafts and antigen
presentation
Vitamin E, ceramides and T cell
signaling
Evening Coffee Break
Phytochemical influences on
immune cells in humans
How vitamin A controls T cell
differentiation and functionality
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m.
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m.
8:25 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
Parveen Yaqoob, University of Reading,
UK
Erika Isolauri, University of Turku,
Finland
Jerry Wells, Wageningen University,
The Netherlands
Wednesday, July 29,2015
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
9:35 a.m.- 10:10 a.m.
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m.
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m.
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m.
8:25 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m. – 9:35 p.m.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
9 February 2016
Chair: Andrew Prentice, London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Angel Gil, University of Granada, Spain
Susan Prescott, University of Western
Australia, Perth
Thom McDade, Northwestern
University
Philip Calder, University of
Southampton, UK
Chair: Graham Pawelec, University of
Tübingen, Germany
S. Raz Shaikh, University of East
Carolina, Greenville, NC
Simin Meydani, Tufts University
Susan Percival, University of Florida,
Gainsville
A. Catherine Ross, Penn State
University
Time a.m. – Time p.m.
Title/Topic Event
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
BREAKFAST
Conference Registration
Session 7: Nutrient-gene
interactions in the immune system
Zinc regulation of gene expression
within the immune system
Vitamin D and immune mediated
diseases
Morning Coffee Break
Selenium as a regulator of immune
and inflammatory responses
Fatty acid interactions with the
inflammasome
Discussion
LUNCH and
Meet the Speakers
Free time
Poster Session
Conference Registration
DINNER
Session 8: The metabolic cost of
infection and inflammation
Metabolic regulation of T cells
Undernutrition, infection and
growth impairment
Evening coffee break
Lymphocyte metabolism and the
role of mTOR
Mitochondrial respiratory capacity
as a critical regulator of T cell
memory development
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
11:05 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. – 7:35 p.m.
7:35 p.m. – 8:10 p.m.
8:10 p.m. – 8:25 p.m.
8:25 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m. – 9:25 p.m.
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
Chair: S. Raz Shaikh, University of East
Carolina, Greenville, NC
Lothar Rink, Aachen University,
Germany
Margherita Cantorna, Penn State
University
Peter Hoffman, University of Honolulu,
HI
Helen Roche, University of Dublin
Chair: Philip Calder, University of
Southampton, UK
Jeff Rathmell, Duke University
Andrew Prentice, London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, U K
Hongbo Chi, St. Jude, Memphis, TN
Erika Pearce, Washington Universtiy,
St. Louis, MO
Friday, July 31, 2015
Time a.m. – Time p.m.
Title/Topic Event
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
BREAKFAST
Conference Registration
Session 9: Nutritional Immunologyold challenges require new
approaches
The need to grasp new technologies
9:35 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
The challenge of biomarkers
10:10 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
10:25 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Morning Coffee Break
Nutritional immunology: A multidimensional approach
9 February 2016
Speaker, affiliation (or location, if
event)
Chair: Margherita Cantorna, Penn State
University
Harald Renz, Philipps University of
Marburg, Germany
Ben van Ommen, University of
Wageningen, The Netherlands
David Raubenheimer, Massey
University, Auckland, New Zealand
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
LUNCH to Go
And DEPARTURES
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9 February 2016