Chair: Marianne Smith Edge, MS, RD – The AgriNutrition Edge
Speaker: Sam Kass
Speaker: Timothy Griffin, PhD – Tufts University
Speaker: Alissa Kendall, PhD – University of California, Davis
Preconference/Satellite
Chair: Diane A. Welland, MS, RD – Juice Products Association
Speaker: Robert Murray, MD – Ohio State University
Speaker: Lynn L. Moore, DSc – Boston University School of Medicine
Preconference/Satellite
Chair: C-Y. Oliver. Chen – Tufts University
Co-Chair: Shu Wang – Texas Tech University
Speaker: Kevin C. Maki – Midwest Biomedical Research/Center for Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health
Speaker: Courtney L. Millar – University of Connecticut
Speaker: Jacopo Agrimi, MS – Unit of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Istitute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Speaker: Sergio Davinelli, PhD – Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Italy - Department of Epidemiology- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Speaker: Pooja D. Patil, BS – Wake Forest School of Medicine
Speaker: Marie-Caroline Michalski – INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Speaker: Yong Chen – Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University
Speaker: Heather J. Blewett, PhD – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dietary Bioactive Components
Chair: Caroline Apovian, MD – Boston University School of Medicine
Speaker: James O. Hill, PhD – Univ of Colorado School of Medicine
Speaker: Kevin D. Hall, PhD – NIDDK/NIH
Speaker: Eric Ravussin, PhD – Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Speaker: Frank B. Hu, PhD MD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: John M. Jakicic, PhD – University of Pittsburgh
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: Shanil Juma, PhD – Texas Woman's University
Co-Chair: Rafaela G. Feresin, PhD – Georgia State University
Speaker: Nafisa M. Jadavji, PhD – Carleton University/University of Ottawa
Speaker: Vijay Hegde – Texas Tech University
Speaker: Alecia L. Cousins – Swansea
Speaker: Ellen Struijk – Dept. Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Speaker: Esther Lopez-Garcia – Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Speaker: Zhaoli Dai, PhD, MS, MA – Boston University
Speaker: Haijun Zhao, Phd – Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center / University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Speaker: Lin Xiao – Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Aging and Chronic Disease
Chair: Sarah S. Comstock, PhD – Michigan State University
Co-Chair: Elitsa A. Ananieva – Des Moines University
Speaker: Carol L. Wagner – Medical University of South Carolina
Speaker: Shahreen Raihana – The University of Sydney
Speaker: Kelly M. Houck, PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Speaker: Xia Xiao – Penn State University
Speaker: Els van Hoffen, PhD – NIZO
Speaker: Lei Wu, Nutritional Sciences – Oklahoma State University
Speaker: Hannah Gardener – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Nutritional Immunology
Chair: Henna Muzaffar, PhD, RD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Chair: Jinan Banna, PhD, RD, CDN – University of Hawaii at Manoa
Speaker: Leslie Cunningham-Sabo – Colorado State University
Speaker: Barbara Lohse, PhD, RDN – Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition, Rochester Institute of Technology
Speaker: Rebecca Hagedorn, BS – West Virginia University
Speaker: Neile Edens, PhD – Common Threads
Speaker: Ruyu Liu, Undergraduate Student – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Cristina Palacios – Florida International University
Speaker: Christine M. Olson, PhD – Cornell University
Speaker: Renata Barros, RDN, MSc, PhD – Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto
Nutrition Education and Behavioral Sciences
Chair: Anuraj H. Shankar, DSc
Speaker: Jef L. Leroy, PhD – International Food Policy Research Institute
Speaker: Elizabeth Prado, PhD – University of California Davis
Speaker: Aryeh D. Stein, PhD – Emory University
Speaker: Leila Larson, PhD, MPH – University of Melbourne, Australia
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Speaker: David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS – Columbia University Medical Center
Speaker: Chwan-Li Shen – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Speaker: Stephen JD O'Keefe, MBBS, MD, MSc, FRCP – University of Pittsburgh
Speaker: Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS – Columbia University
Speaker: Caroline Apovian, MD – Boston University School of Medicine
Speaker: Scott A. Shikora, MD – Harvard Medical School
Speaker: John P. Foreyt, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker: Lucia Aronica, PhD – Stanford
Speaker: Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Chair: Nancy J. Emenaker – NCI, NIH
Speaker: Cindy Davis, PhD – Office of Dietary Supplements
Speaker: Barbara Sorkin, PhD – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Phillip Daschner, PhD – NCI Shady Grove
Speaker: Sharon A. Ross, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Holly L. Nicastro, PhD, MPH – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Speaker: Mary Evans, PhD – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Padma Maruvada, PhD
Speaker: Giovanna Zappala, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Linda C. Duffy, PhD, MPH – NIH/NCCAM
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Edward Frongillo – University of South Carolina
Co-Chair: Masresha Anegago, PhD Fellow – Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Addis Ababa , Ethiopia and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Speaker: Samuel P. Scott – International Food Policy Research Institute
Speaker: Nancy F. Krebs – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Speaker: Daniel E. Roth – Hospital for Sick Children
Speaker: Masresha Anegago, PhD Fellow – Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Addis Ababa , Ethiopia and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Speaker: Kristen M. Hurley, PhD, MPH – Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker: Nicole D. Ford – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker: Phuong H. Nguyen – International Food Policy Research Institute
Speaker: Leila Larson, PhD, MPH – University of Melbourne, Australia
Global Nutrition
Chair: Naiman A. Khan, PhD, RD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Chair: Natalia Surzenko, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speaker: Maku E. Ocansey, PhD – University of California, Davis
Speaker: Charlotte L. Bahnfleth – Cornell University
Speaker: Stephen A. Fleming – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Anna M. van Opstal – Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Radiology
Speaker: Elizabeth J. Johnson, Ph.D. – Tufts University
Speaker: Dorothy Chiu – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker: Olga Davidenko – AgroParisTech
Speaker: Bing Wang, PhD. MD. RegNutr – Charels Sturt University
Neurobiology
Chair: Crystal L. Levesque, PhD – South Dakota State University
Co-Chair: Samer El-Kadi – Virginia Tech
Speaker: Yaelle Joselit, MS RDN – Brooklyn College
Speaker: Marko Rudar – Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker: Gustavo Chicaybam. Peixoto – UFRJ
Speaker: Lady Leidy Sanchez-Fernandez – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Speaker: George M. Slim, MB BCh – University of Alberta
Speaker: Agus Suryawan – USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Speaker: Jane Naberhuis – USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Experimental Animal Nutrition
Chair: Anna Thalacker Mercer – Cornell University
Co-Chair: Robert E. Bergia, III, MS – Purdue University
Speaker: Gagandeep Mann, BSc – York University
Speaker: Juan Marini – Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker: Anthony Martin, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Speaker: Agus Suryawan – USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Speaker: Lee M. Margolis – US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Speaker: Hong Chang Tan – Singapore General Hospital
Speaker: Jess A. Gwin – Purdue University
Speaker: Deirdre Tobias, ScD – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism
Chair: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr
Speaker: Steven K. Clinton, MD, PhD – Ohio State University
Speaker: Edward Giovannucci – Harvard University
Speaker: Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH – University of North Carolina
Moderator: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Global and Public Health
Chair: José M. Ordovás, PhD – Jean Mayer USDA/NRCA at Tufts University
Speaker: Marie-Claude Vohl, PhD – Université Laval
Speaker: Arne Astrup, MD, PhD – University of Copenhagen
Speaker: E. Matthew Morris, PhD – University of Kansas Medical Center
Speaker: Daniel McDonald, PhD – UC San Diego
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Speaker: Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc – Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Speaker: Gilles Bergeron, PhD – Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science
Speaker: Erin Hennessy, PhD, MPH – Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and POlicy
Speaker: Bruce Y. Lee, MD – Global Obesity Prevention Center
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Chair: Mandy B. Belfort, MD, MPH – Brigham and Women's Hospital
Co-Chair: Cria Perrine – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker: Ariel Salas, MD, MSPH – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Speaker: Lewis P. Rubin, MD, MPhil – TTUHSC El Paso
Speaker: Julie A. Mennella, PhD – Monell Chemical Senses Center
Speaker: Lorena Oropeza, - – Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro
Speaker: Mandy B. Belfort, MD, MPH – Brigham and Women's Hospital
Speaker: Sandra G. Okala – King's College London
Maternal, Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition
Speaker: Pamela Starke-Reed – Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Kelsey M. Mangano, PhD, RD – University of Massachusetts Lowell
Co-Chair: Maya Vadiveloo – Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Speaker: Courtney H. Schnefke, MPH, RD – RTI International
Speaker: Eleanor T. Shonkoff, PhD – ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Speaker: Joshua Petimar, ScD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Sharon Kirkpatrick, PhD – University of Waterloo
Speaker: Didier Brassard, RD MSc – Laval University
Speaker: Patricia M. Guenther, PhD, RD – University of Utah
Speaker: Anastasia Marshak – Tufts University
Nutritional Epidemiology
Speaker: Deirdra Chester, PhD, RDN – National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
Career/Professional Development
Presenter: Dionne F. Toombs, PhD – USDA
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Sharon M. Donovan, PhD, RD – University of Illinois
Chair: Olivier Goulet, MD – Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades
Preconference/Satellite
Chair: Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD
Speaker: Peter J. Rogers, PhD – University of Bristol
Speaker: Margaret Leahy, PhD – Food, Nutrition & Policy Solutions LLC
Speaker: Dylan Mackay, PhD – University of Manitoba
Preconference/Satellite
Chair: George Wang – Kansas State University
Co-Chair: Jin-Rong Zhou – Harvard University
Speaker: Miguel N. Llanos – Universidad de Chile
Speaker: Elitsa A. Ananieva – Des Moines University
Speaker: Tamio Yamaguchi – Department of Clinical Nutrition, Suzuka University of Medical Science
Speaker: Weiyi Sun, ScM – Brown University
Speaker: Rumana Yasmeen – Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, ARS,USDA
Speaker: Sumira Phatak – Utah State University
Diet and Cancer
Chair: John W. Apolzan – Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Co-Chair: Sai Das – Jean Mayer, USDA, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Speaker: Nancy L. Keim, PhD – USDA, ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
Speaker: Clemens Wittenbecher, Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc. Epidemiology, M.Sc. Human Nutrition – German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE)
Speaker: Miguel A. Lanaspa, DVM PhD – University of Colorado AMC
Speaker: Jyoti Sihag, BSc (Hons.) MSc – Richardson Centre for Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals, University of Manitoba
Speaker: Daniel J. Freidenreich – Rowan University
Speaker: Makenzie L. Callahan, MS, RDN – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism
Chair: Bruce A. Watkins, PhD – University of California, Davis
Co-Chair: Michael E. Rybak, PhD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker: Kevin W. Gellenbeck, PhD – Amway/Nutrilite
Speaker: Craig Charron – US Dept. of Agriculture
Speaker: Gerardo G. Mackenzie, Ph.D. – University of California, Davis
Speaker: Shaomin Zhao, Master degree in Nutritional science – University of Florida
Dietary Bioactive Components
Chair: Ricardo Ekmay – Arbiom
Co-Chair: Timothy J. Wester, PhD – Massey University
Speaker: Megan Corbett, MS, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Patricia C. de Velasco – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
Speaker: Kaylee Helfrich, B.S. – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Speaker: Cornelia C. Metges – Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Speaker: Laura C. Knight – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Experimental Animal Nutrition
Speaker: John W. Apolzan – Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Speaker: Scott Montain, PhD – US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: Daniel J. Raiten, PhD – NIH NICHD
Speaker: Yibo Wood – USDA
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Chair: Naiman A. Khan, PhD, RD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Chair: Natalia Surzenko, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speaker: Thomas M. Holland, MD – Rush University Medical Center
Speaker: Erica Jansen – University of Michigan School of Public Health
Speaker: Jirayu Tanprasertsuk – Tufts University
Speaker: .Joanne E. Fil – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Xueyan Fu – Tufts University
Speaker: Julie E.H Nevins, PhD – Cornell University
Neurobiology
Speaker: John Lombardo
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Patricia L. Smith, MLIS – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Beth H. Olson – University of Wisconsin
Co-Chair: Madeleine Sigman-Grant, PhD, RD – University of Nevada, Reno
Speaker: Phaik Ling Quah – A*Star
Speaker: Shibani Ghosh, PhD – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Speaker: Hong Xue – Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker: Kameron J. Moding, PhD – University of Colorado Denver
Speaker: Amy M. Moore, MS – The University of Rhode Island
Speaker: Julie E. Obbagy, PhD, RD – USDA, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Speaker: Kirsten Herrick – National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
Maternal, Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition
Chair: Diana Thomas – United States Military Academy
Speaker: William R. Quarles, B.S. – Texas Tech University
Speaker: Jay J. Cao – Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
Speaker: Carina Kern – Nature's Bounty Co.
Speaker: Richard D. Sayer – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Speaker: Shufa Du – UNC-Chapel Hill
Speaker: Kerry E. Mills – University of Canberra
Speaker: Francisco J. Amo – University of Cantabria
Speaker: Ambika Satija, ScD – Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Obesity
Speaker: Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, ScD – Cornell University
Speaker: Werner Gellermann, PhD – Longevity Link Corporation
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Chair: David Heber, MD, PhD – UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
Speaker: Charles Brenner, PhD – University of Iowa
Speaker: Marcia C. Haigis, PhD – Harvard Medical School
Speaker: Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD – UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Speaker: Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Co-Chair: Bill Evans, PhD – Duke University Medical Center
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: José M. Ordovás, PhD – Jean Mayer USDA/NRCA at Tufts University
Speaker: Ming Ding – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Dayana Rodrigues Farias – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Speaker: Ines Gonzalez-Casanova – Emory University
Speaker: Mercedes Sotos Prieto, PhD – Ohio University/Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, R.D. – Massachusetts General Hospital
Speaker: Silvia Berciano, MSc – JM-USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University
Speaker: Chao-Qiang Lai – USDA ARS
Speaker: Maria Carlota Dao – Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Nutrient-Gene Interactions
Speaker: Maryam Hashemian – NCI
Speaker: Andrea L. Spray – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Speaker: Anne-Julie Tessier – McGill University
Speaker: Eleanor T. Shonkoff, PhD – ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Speaker: Ethan M. Braun – Purdue University
Speaker: Chikumbutso Chibwinja – Lilongwe University
Speaker: Timur Osadchiy – Newcastle University
Chair: James O. Hill, PhD – Univ of Colorado School of Medicine
Speaker: France Bellisle, PhD – Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle, Université Paris
Speaker: John L. Sievenpiper, MD, PhD, FRCPC – University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital
Speaker: John C. Peters, PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Chair: David McCarron – University of California, Davis
Co-Chair: Kathryn N. Porter Starr, PhD, RD – Duke University School of Medicine; Durham VA Medical Center
Speaker: Nirupa R. Matthan – Tufts University
Speaker: C-Y. Oliver. Chen – Tufts University
Speaker: Marshall G. Miller, PhD – Duke University
Speaker: Stefanie N. Hinkle, PhD – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Speaker: Siqi Hu – University of Conneticut
Speaker: Maryam Kazemi – University of Saskatchewan
Speaker: Vasily Isakov, MD, PhD, AGAF – Federal Research Centre of Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food safety
Speaker: Taylor C. Wallace – George Mason University
Medical Nutrition
Chair: Sarah S. Comstock, PhD – Michigan State University
Speaker: Kevin Fritsche – University of Missouri, Columbia
Speaker: Parmi Suchdev, MD, MPH – Emory University
Speaker: Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH – University of North Carolina
Speaker: Lisa M. Troy, PhD – University of Massachusetts
Moderator: Sarah S. Comstock, PhD – Michigan State University
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Speaker: Andrew Green, PhD – UC Berkeley Career
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Debra Behrens, Dr. Debra Behrens – UC Berkeley Career Center
Career/Professional Development
Chair: MaryAnn Johnson, PhD – University of Georgia
Chair: Pamela Starke-Reed – Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Speaker: Steven B. Heymsfield, MD – Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Chair: Andrew M. Prentice, PhD – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Speaker: Robert C. Post, PhD, Med., MSc – Chobani Health and Wellness, Chobani LLC
Speaker: Maha Tahiri, PhD – General Mills Bell Institute of Health, Nutrition & Food Safety
Speaker: Petra Klassen-Wigger, PhD – Nestle Research Center
Speaker: Nate Matusheski, PhD – DSM Nutritional Products, LLC
Speaker: Jeffrey J. Zachwieja, PhD, FACSM – PepsiCo
Preconference/Satellite
Chair: Stuart M. Phillips, PhD – McMaster University
Speaker: Douglas Paddon-Jones, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch
Speaker: Rajavel Elango, PhD – University of British Columbia
Speaker: Heather Leidy, PhD – Purdue University
Preconference/Satellite