Maternal obesity, diet,
and developmental
programming:
‘Aligning mother-child
studies’
I LSI Europe Mini-Workshop
10 - 11 October 2011
Brussels, Belgium
Draft Programme
Maternal obesity, diet, and developmental programming:
‘Aligning mother-child studies’
10-11 October 2011
Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium
Workshop Organising Committee
Prof. Michael Symonds - Chair -
University of Nottingham
UK
Prof. Stewart Forsyth*
Martek Biosciences Corporation
UK
Prof. Keith Godfrey
University of Southampton
UK
Prof. Berthold Koletzko
University of Munich
DE
Dr. Katherine Macé
Nestlé
CH
Prof. Helle Margrete Meltzer - Co-chair -
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
NO
Prof. Lucilla Poston
St Thomas' Hospital
UK
Dr. Eline van der Beek
Danone
SG
Dr. Petra Verhoef
Unilever
NL
Ms. Fanny Rollin
ILSI Europe
BE
Dr. Eline van der Beek - Chair
Danone
SG
Dr. Aline Adam-Perrot
Chiquita Brands International
CH
Prof. Stewart Forsyth*
Martek Biosciences Corporation
UK
Dr. Marjan Gros
FrieslandCampina
NL
Dr. Katherine Macé
Nestlé
CH
Dr. Ricardo Rueda
Abbott Nutrition
ES
Dr. Marieke Schoemaker
Mead Johnson Nutrition
NL
Dr. Petra Verhoef
Unilever
NL
Ms. Fanny Rollin
ILSI Europe
BE
Task Force Members
Cohort Studies – Core group
Prof. Keith Godfrey
University of Southampton
UK
Prof. Vincent Jaddoe
Erasmus University Rotterdam
NL
Prof. Berthold Koletzko
University of Munich
DE
Dr. Yannis Manios
Harokopio University of Athens
GR
Prof. Helle Margrete Meltzer
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
NO
Prof. Lucilla Poston
St Thomas' Hospital
UK
Prof. Michael Symonds
University of Nottingham
UK
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Maternal obesity, diet, and developmental programming:
‘Aligning mother-child studies’
10-11 October 2011
Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Overall Chair:
Overall Co-Chair:
Rapporteur:
Co-Rapporteur:
Berthold Koletzko
Stewart Forsyth
Michael Symonds
Helle Margrete Meltzer
10 October 2011
8.30-10.15
Registration and welcome coffee
9.00-10.00
Briefing meeting (Officers only)
SESSION 1: Maternal dietary exposures and offspring obesity and metabolic risk
Chair: Eline van der Beek
Rapporteur: Petra Verhoef
10:15-10:30
Welcome and Introduction
10:00-10:40
The breadth and depth of evidence to suggest that
maternal dietary intake is a determinant of offspring
obesity and metabolic risk
Fanny Rollin
Matthew Gillman
The Cohort studies; brief descriptions of maternal nutritional/dietary parameters
recorded, which gestational age, methods, key findings of interest
10:40-10:50
Southampton Women Survey (SWS, UK)
Siân Robinson
11:00-11:10
The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
Helle-Margrete
Meltzer
11:10-11:40
Coffee Break
11:40-11:50
The Danish National Birth Cohort: Maternal dietary
exposures and offspring metabolic risk (DNBC, DK)
Sjurdur Olsen
11:50-12:00
Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE UK and IR)
Lucilla Poston
12:00-12:10
Generation R (NL)
Vincent Jaddoe
12:10-12:20
Project Viva (US)
Matthew Gillman
12:20-12:30
Mother-Child study in Crete (RHEA, GR)
12:30-12:40
Fatty Acids During Pregnancy and Lactation and Body
Fat Mass in Newborns (INFAT, DE)
Leda Chatzi
Hans Hauner
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Maternal obesity, diet, and developmental programming:
‘Aligning mother-child studies’
10-11 October 2011
Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium
12:40-12:50
UK Pregnancies: Better Eating and Activity Trial
(UPBEAT, UK)
Lucilla Poston
12:50-13:50
Lunch
TBC
Wrap up session
14:00-15:00
General discussion towards consensus on minimal
requirements for maternal dietary records, and
optimal methods
Michelle A. Mendez
Eline van der Beek
SESSION 2: Maternal body weight, composition, and offspring obesity
and metabolic risk
Chair: Lucilla Poston
Rapporteur: Katherine Macé
14:30-15:00
Maternal body weight/composition in obese mother; a
relationship with obesity and metabolic risks for their
offspring?
Cristina Campoy
15:00-15:30
Maternal gestational weight gain; relationship with
obesity risk in the offspring?
15:30-16:00
Coffee-Break
16:00-16:30
Don’t forget the genes’; determination of role of genetic
variants and epigenetic processes in associations
between mother and child obesity
Ken Ong
16:30-18:00
General discussion towards consensus of methods and
strategies to address this hypothesis
Lucilla Poston
19.00
Dinner
Keith Godfrey
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Maternal obesity, diet, and developmental programming:
‘Aligning mother-child studies’
10-11 October 2011
Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium
11 October 2011
SESSION 3: Postnatal exposures, infant growth trajectories and relationships with
infant and childhood obesity and metabolic risk
Chair: Michael Symonds
Rapporteur: Stewart Forsyth
09:00-09:30
The EarlyNutrition Project. Strategies to assess the
role of pre- and postnatal exposures and growth
trajectories on development of childhood obesity and
metabolic risk
Berthold Koletzko
Infant and childhood exposures, growth trajectories, body composition and
biomarker assessment; information available from the cohorts
09:30-09:40
Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE,
Auckland and SCOPE Ireland)
Louise Kenny
09:40-09:50
Project Viva (US)
09:50-10:00
Southampton Women Study (SWS, UK)
10:00-10:10
Generation R.
10:10-10:30
Coffee-Break
10:30-11:30
General Discussion
Michael Symonds
11:30-12:45
Conclusion
Berthold Koletzko
12:45-13:30
Lunch and end of the Workshop
13.30-14.30
Debriefing with Task Force and Organising Committee Members
Matthew Gillman
Keith Godfrey
Vincent Jaddoe
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