Clinical and Translational Nutrition

Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism

Recent Advances in Nutritional Modulation of the Immune System

Speaker(s)

• 

  Simin Meydani, DVM, PhD

  Vice Provost for Research
  Tufts University
  Boston, Massachusetts
• 

  Margherita Cantorna, PhD

  Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Nutrition
  Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania
• 

  Melinda Beck, PhD

  Faculty
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Learning Objectives:

• Describe T cell metabolism, T cell subsets defined T cell metabolism defined for each subset
• Compare the metabolism of T cells in the lean vs obese environment, altered T cell metabolism in the obese state is presented Different subsets of T cells in the obese state with different metabolic profiles
• Explain how obesity can alter T cell metaoblism, hormone changes that alter metabolism inflammatory changes that alter metabolism nutrient changes that alter metabolism

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

  Counteracting the negative impact of high-fat diets on immunity/inflammation with fruits and vegetables
• 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

  Vitamin D downregulates immunity to control enteric infection
• 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

  Obesity-induced metabolic reprogramming of T cells