Chair: Nana Gletsu-Miller, PhD – Purdue University
Chair: Taylor C. Wallace, PhD – Think Healthy Group, Inc. / George Mason University
Speaker: Robert Marriott, JD, MA
Speaker: Sibyl Swift, PhD – Food and Drug Administration
Speaker: Andrew Shao, PhD – Council for Responsible Nutrition
Speaker: Roger Clemens, DrPH – USC School of Pharmacy
Speaker: Peter Pressman, MD, PhD – Polyscience Consulting
Satellite
Chair: David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN – Columbia University
From Research to Practice
Chair: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts
Co-Chair: Lauren R. Brink, PhD – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences & Arkansas Children's Hospital
Presenting Author: Diana H. Taft, Ph.D. – University of California, Davis
Presenting Author: Noel T. Mueller, PhD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
Presenting Author: Ruyue Cheng, MD – West China School of Public Health, and Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University
Presenting Author: Kameron Y. Sugino, BS – Michigan State University
Presenting Author: Moira K. Differding, BA – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
Presenting Author: Shannon C. Conrey, MS – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine/Dept of Environmental Health
Presenting Author: Samantha L. Huey, BS – Cornell University
Presenting Author: Kelsea M. Drall, BSc – University of Alberta Department of Pediatrics
Nutritional Microbiology
Chair: Gloria Salazar – Florida State University
Co-Chair: Kelli S. George, B.S., RDN – Florida State University
Presenting Author: Candice A. Myers, Ph.D. – Pennington Biomedicial Research Center
Presenting Author: Angela Bermudez-Millan, PhD, MPH – UConn Health
Presenting Author: Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, JD, MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Presenting Author: Yan Wang, DrPH – University of Maryland School of Medicine
Presenting Author: Kaela Plank, MPH, MS – University of California, Nutrition Policy Institute
Presenting Author: Diana Brostow, PhD, MPH, RDN – Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
Presenting Author: Lucas Gosdin, MPH – Nutrition and Health Sciences, Laney Graduate School, Emory University
Presenting Author: Emily Z. Wang, B.A. – Cornell University
Aging and Chronic Disease
Community and Public Health Nutrition
Global Nutrition
Maternal, Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition
Obesity
Speaker: Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD
From Research to Practice
Chair: Alison Stieber, PhD, RD – Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
Speaker: Mads F. Hjorth, PhD – University of Copenhagen
Speaker: Itzel Vazquez-Vidal, PhD – University of Manitoba
Speaker: Claude Aebischer, PhD – DSM
Speaker: Kim Stitzel, MS, RD – American Heart Association
Speaker: Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD – University of California Davis
Speaker: Albert Barrocas, MD, FACS, FASPEN – WellStar Atlanta Medical Center
Speaker: Renay D. Tyler, DNP, RN, ACNP – University of Maryland Medical Center
From Research to Practice
Speaker: Alyssa M. Abreu, BS – University of Rhode Island Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
Speaker: Maribel Barragan, BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Gabriella Hernandez, Graduate Student – California Polytechnic State University
Speaker: Doreen Y. Larvie, MS – University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Speaker: Abrania D. Marrero-Hernandez, BS, BSPH – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Salima F. Taylor, BS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Chair: Martha A. Belury, PhD – The Ohio State University
Speaker: Rola Hammoud, MSc – University of Toronto Department of Nutritional Sciences
Speaker: Jihye Lee, MS – University of Maryland
Speaker: Jelena Mustra Rakic, MS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Speaker: Charlotte L. Bahnfleth, B.S. – Cornell University
Speaker: Car Reen Kok, MS – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Speaker: Maryam Razaghi, PhD candidate – McGill University
Speaker: Djibril Ba, MPH – Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Speaker: Hyunju Kim, MPH – Johns Hopkins University
Speaker: Yi Zhao, MSc – Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition
Chair: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida
Chair: Xingen Lei, PhD – Cornell University
Speaker: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida
Speaker: Inga Wessels, PhD – RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Speaker: Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, PhD – University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Tolunay Aydemir, PhD – Cornell University
Speaker: Byung-Eun Kim, PhD – University of Maryland
Speaker: K. Sandeep Prabhu, MSc, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University
Speaker: Forrest H. Nielson, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service - Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: Sera L. Young, PhD – Northwestern University Department of Anthropology, Institute for Policy Research
Co-Chair: Sheela S. Sinharoy, MPH, PhD – Emory University
Presenting Author: Victoria Miller, PhD – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Presenting Author: Shibani Ghosh, PhD – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Presenting Author: Sarah Baker, MSPH – Johns Hopkins University
Presenting Author: Valerie Flax, PhD, MPH – RTI International
Presenting Author: Marianne V. Santoso, MS – Cornell University
Presenting Author: Rebecca K. Campbell, PhD, MSPH – Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Presenting Author: Melissa Chapnick, RD, MS, MPH – Washington University in St. Louis
Global Nutrition
Speaker: Kathryn N. Porter Starr, PhD, RD – Duke University School of Medicine
From Research to Practice
Speaker: Connie W. Bales, PhD, RD – Duke University School of Medicine
From Research to Practice
Chair: Sahar Ajabshir, Ph.D. – Florida International University
Speaker: Laura Hopkins, PhD, MSPH, RDN, LDN – The Ohio State University
Speaker: Mengying Li, PhD, MSPH – NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Lichchavi D. Rajasinghe, PhD – Michigan State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Speaker: HyunGyu Suh, Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Speaker: Angela Trude, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine
Speaker: Danyue Zhao, Ph.D. – Rutgers University
Chair: Susan B. Roberts, PhD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Speaker: Holly Nicastro, PhD, MPH – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Speaker: Paul MacLean – University of Colorado School of Medicine
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Donald K. Layman, PhD – University of Illinois
Speaker: Stuart M. Phillips, PhD – McMaster University
Speaker: Douglas Paddon-Jones, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch
Speaker: Donald K. Layman, PhD – University of Illinois
Satellite
Moderator: Klaus Kraemer, PhD – Sight and Life
Speaker: Jessica Fanzo, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker: Adam Drewnowski, PhD – University of Washington
Speaker: Jeffrey B. Blumberg, PhD – Tufts University
Speaker: Greg Miller, PhD, MACN – National Dairy Council
Moderator: Eileen Kennedy, DSc – Tufts University
Satellite
Chair: Jaime Lillo, PhD, MPH – International Olive Council
Moderator: Edward L. Giovannucci, MD, ScD – Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Jaime Lillo, PhD, MPH – International Olive Council
Speaker: Miguel Ángel A. MARTINEZ-GONZALEZ, MD, PhD, MPH – University of Navarra, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain
Speaker: Lukas Schwingshackl, PhD – University of Freiburg
Speaker: Martha C. Morris, ScD – Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University
Satellite
Chair: Jessica L. Thomson, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service
Co-Chair: Samara Joy Nielsen, PhD, MDiv – The Sage Colleges
Presenting Author: Danielle Krobath, M.S. – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Presenting Author: Lisa Jahns, PhD, RD – USDA
Presenting Author: Celina Santiago, B.S. – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presenting Author: Felicia J. Setiono, MSPH – Cornell University
Presenting Author: Amy Saxe-Custack, PhD, MPH, RDN – Michigan State University
Presenting Author: Carrie Martin, MS, RD – USDA Agricultural Research Service
Presenting Author: Anne O. Garceau, MS, RD – USDA Agricultural Research Service - Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
Presenting Author: Aurelie Chanson-Rolle, PhD – VAB-nutrition
Community and Public Health Nutrition
Chair: Emily Radlowski, PhD, RD – Dominican University
Speaker: Ling-Wei Chen, PhD – School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin
Speaker: Rachel R. Deer, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch
Speaker: Karen Lindsay, PhD, RDN – University of California Irvine
Speaker: Xian Wu, Ph.D. – Tufts University
Speaker: Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
From Research to Practice
Chair: Myron D. Gross, PhD – University of Minnesota Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Chair: Ted Wilson, PhD – Winona State University
Speaker: Giulio M. Pasinetti, MD, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Speaker: Dragan Milenkovic, PhD – Human Nutrition Unit, University Clermont Auvergne, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Speaker: David C. Nieman, DrPH – Appalachian State University
Speaker: Aron Keith Barbey, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From Research to Practice
Speaker: Diane Harris, PhD, MPH – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Career/Professional Development
Chair: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts
Speaker: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts
Speaker: Meghan B. Azad, PhD – University of Manitoba
Speaker: Robert A. Britton, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker: Eric C. Martens, PhD – University of Michigan Medical School
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: Beth H. Olson – University of Wisconsin
Co-Chair: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver
Presenting Author: Alison Tovar, PhD, MPH – University of Rhode island
Presenting Author: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver
Presenting Author: Karina R. Lora, PhD RDN – The George Washington University
Presenting Author: Hoa T. Nguyen, Ph.D.(c) – University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health
Presenting Author: Jessica Eliason, M.S. student – Arizona State University
Presenting Author: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D. – Yale University
Presenting Author: Angela Trude, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine
Maternal, Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition
Chair: Richard C. Baybutt, Professor – East Carolina University
Co-Chair: Silvia Stan, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno
Presenting Author: Abby Benninghoff, PhD – Utah State University
Presenting Author: Jimmy Crott, PhD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Presenting Author: Sumira Phatak, B.S. – Utah State University
Presenting Author: Dallas R. Donohoe, Ph.D. – UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, NUTRITION
Presenting Author: Chris Weston, MS – Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine
Presenting Author: Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenting Author: Yiying Zhao, B.Eng – Purdue University
Presenting Author: Christian J. Konopka, BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Diet and Cancer
Chair: Helen Everts, PhD – Texas Woman's University
Co-Chair: Jessica Cooperstone, Ph.D. – The Ohio State University
Presenting Author: Caitlyn G. Edwards, B.S. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenting Author: Jelena Mustra Rakic, MS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Presenting Author: Yaqi Li, n/a – The Pennsylvania State University
Presenting Author: Bridget A. Hannon, MS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenting Author: Nancy E. Moran, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
Presenting Author: Georg Lietz, PhD – Newcastle University
Presenting Author: Jonathan Cerna, BS – University of Iliinois Urbana-Champaign
Carotenoids and Retinoids (CARIG)
Moderator: Richard Mattes, PhD MPH RD – Purdue University
Speaker: Heiner Boeing, Professor – FENS at German Institute of Human Nutrition
Speaker: Cutberto Garza, MD, PhD – Cornell University
Speaker: Philip C. Calder, PhD – University of Southampton
Speaker: Gregory S. Shelness, PhD – NIH Center for Scientific Review
Career/Professional Development
Chair: Sai Krupa Das, PhD – Tufts University
Co-Chair: Amy Taetzsch, MS, RD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
Presenting Author: Chaitra Surugihalli, MS – University of Maryland
Presenting Author: Jennifer L. LaBarre, MPH, RD – University of Michigan, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Presenting Author: Jaapna Dhillon, PhD – UC Merced
Presenting Author: Manuel Ramos, n/a – California Polytechnic State University
Presenting Author: Jess A. Gwin, PhD – US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Presenting Author: Sepideh Dibay Moghadam, PhD, MPH, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Presenting Author: Yangbo Sun, PhD, MD – University of Iowa
Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism
Chair: Emily R. Smith, ScD, MPH – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Co-Chair: Parul Christian, PhD – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Speaker: Emily R. Smith, ScD, MPH – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Speaker: Josef Schmidhuber, PhD – Researcher
Speaker: Kirkby D. Tickell, MBBS, MPH – University of Washington
Speaker: Purvesh Khatri, PhD – Stanford University
Speaker: Michael Rosenblum, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker: Laura Lamberti, PhD, MHS – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Speaker: Daniel E. Roth, MD, PhD – Hospital for Sick Children, Canada & University of Toronto, Canada
Speaker: Alain Labrique, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Speaker: Samuel Klein, MD – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
From Research to Practice
Speaker: Jaime Uribarri, MD – Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
From Research to Practice
Chair: Catherine Field, PhD, RD – University of Alberta
Speaker: Dan Knights, Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
Speaker: Peter James Turnbaugh, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Moderator: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Author: P.K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS – The Nutrition Doctor Is In