The 3rd Congress of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/ Nutrigenomics

Agenda

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
4:00 - 8:00 pm	Registration at Hyatt Regency Hotel

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 am	Registration at Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
8:30 - 9:00 am	Welcome Artemis P Simopoulos, President, International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (ISNN), Washington, DC John A Milner, National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, Bethesda, MD
Session 1	Frontiers in Nutrigenetics Cochairs: Artemis P Simopoulos, President, ISNN, Washington, DC John A Milner, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
9:00 - 9:25 am	Opportunities and Challenges in Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics and Health Raffaele De Caterina, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy
9:25 - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 - 9:55 am	Role of Human Genetic Variation in Nutritional Epidemiology Research David J Hunter, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
9:55 - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 - 10:25 am	Genome-Wide Association Studies and Diet Lynnette R Ferguson, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
10:25 - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 - 10:50 am	Break
Session 1	Frontiers in Nutrigenetics (continued) Cochairs: Cindy D Davis, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD Sergio Muntoni, Center for Metabolic Diseases and Atherosclerosis, Cagliari, Italy
10:50 - 11:15 am	Copy Number Variation and Human Dietary Adaptations From an Evolutionary Perspective Anne C Stone, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
11:15 - 11:20 am	Discussion
11:20 - 11:45 am	Copy Number Variation, Purified Eicosapentaenoic Acid, and Central Nervous System Disorders Basant Puri, Imperial College London, Cambridge, United Kingdom
11:45 - 11:50 am	Discussion
11:50 - 1:20 pm	Lunch
Session 2	Frontiers in Nutrigenetics (continued) Cochairs: Jack A Yanovski, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD Louis Pérusse, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1:20 - 1:45 pm	FTO Variants Are Associated With Overeating and Many Long-Term Health Problems Associated With Obesity Colin NA Palmer, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
1:45 - 1:50 pm	Discussion
1:50 - 2:15 pm	Genotype-Dependent Response to Energy-Restricted Diets in Obese Subjects J Alfredo Martínez, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
2:15 - 2:20 pm	Discussion
2:20 - 2:45 pm	The Genetics of Hypertension and Salt Sensitivity Steven C Hunt, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2:45 - 2:50 pm	Discussion
2:50 - 3:10 pm	Break
Session 2	Frontiers in Nutrigenetics (continued) Cochairs: Raffaele De Caterina, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy David M Klurfeld, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville, MD
3:10 - 3:35 pm	Physiological Significance of SNPs: The Folate Example Cornelia M Ulrich, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
3:35 - 3:40 pm	Discussion
3:40 - 4:05 pm	Xenobiotic Metabolizing Genes, Meat Intake, and Risk of Advanced Colorectal Adenoma Rashmi Sinha, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
4:05 - 4:10 pm	Discussion
4:10 - 4:35 pm	Genomics of a Slothful Lifestyle: Insights From a Founder Population Alan R Shuldiner, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
4:35 - 4:40 pm	Discussion
4:40 - 5:05 pm	FADS 2 Polymorphisms Modify the Effect of Breastfeeding on Child IQ Joseph R Hibbeln, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIH, Bethesda, MD
5:05 - 5:10 pm	Discussion
5:10 - 6:30 pm	ISNN Members Business Meeting
5:10 - 7:30 pm	Poster Session/Discussion Reception

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Session 3	Frontiers in Epigenetics Cochairs: Pamela E Starke-Reed, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, Bethesda, MD Enitan Abisogun Bababunmi, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
8:15 - 8:40 am	Interindividual Epigenetic Variation: When, Why, and So What? Robert A Waterland, Baylor College of Medicine/USDA Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX
8:40 - 8:50 am	Discussion
8:50 - 9:15 am	Diet and Genomic Modification Alan Jackson, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
9:15 - 9:25 am	Discussion
9:25 - 9:50 am	The New Epigenetics: Adaptability and Diversity Through Fidelity Robert H Lane, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9:50 - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 - 10:25 am	Choline: How Dietary Requirements are Affected by SNPs and How Choline Influences Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression Steven H Zeisel, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
10:25 - 10:35 am	Discussion
10:35 - 10:45 am	Break
Session 3	Frontiers in Epigenetics (continued) Cochairs: John Paul SanGiovanni, National Eye Institute (NEI), NIH, Bethesda, MD Lisa A Spence, National Dairy Council, Rosemont, IL
10:45 - 11:10 am	Dietary Polyphenols Mediate Regulation of Oxidative Stress and Chromatin Remodeling in Inflammation Irfan Rahman, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
11:10 - 11:20 am	Discussion
11:20 - 11:45 am	Dietary Manipulation of Histone Structure and Function Emily Ho, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
11:45 - 11:55 am	Discussion
11:55 - 12:55 pm	Lunch
Session 4	The Impact of Transcriptomics on Nutrigenomics Cochairs: Edwin Mariman, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Antonio Velazquez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
12:55 - 1:20 pm	Nrf2 Mediates Cancer Protection but Not Longevity Induced by Caloric Restriction Kevin J Pearson, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1:20 - 1:30 pm	Discussion
1:30 - 1:55 pm	Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions Alter Human Gene Expression Per-Arne Svensson, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
1:55 - 2:05 pm	Discussion
2:05 - 2:30 pm	Laboratory Diet Profoundly Alters Gene Expression and Confounds Genomic Analysis Joshua W Hamilton, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA/Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH/Brown University, Providence, RI
2:30 - 2:40 pm	Discussion
2:40 - 3:05 pm	Toxicogenomic Concepts Applicable to Studies of the Genomic Effects of Dietary Components Karol L Thompson, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD
3:05 - 3:15 pm	Discussion
3:15 - 3:25 pm	Break
3:25 - 5:35 pm	Poster Session/Discussion
6:25 - 8:25 pm	Congress Dinner Presentation Building the Cairns on the Path to Personalized Medicine Lawrence C Brody, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Friday, October 23, 2009
Session 5	Noncoding RNAs and Posttranslational Gene Regulation Cochairs: Young S Kim, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD Charles N Serhan, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
8:15 - 8:40 am	Dietary Regulation of microRNA Expression in Cancer Cells Sharon A Ross, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
8:40 - 8:50 am	Discussion
8:50 - 9:15 am	Dietary Methyl Deficiency, microRNA Expression, and Susceptibility to Liver Carcinogenesis Igor P Pogribny, FDA, Jefferson, AR
9:15 - 9:25 am	Discussion
9:25 - 9:50 am	Alcohol, miRNA Expression, and Its Role in Alcoholic Liver Disease Yeuming Tang, Rush University, Chicago, IL
9:50 - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 am	Break
Session 6	Moving Beyond Genomics Chair: Jing X Kang, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
10:10 - 10:35 am	Redox Dysregulation and Oxidative Stress in Schizophrenia: Nutrigenetics as a Challenge in Psychiatric Disease Prevention Kim Q Do, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
10:35 - 10:45 am	Discussion
10:45 - 11:10 am	Utilizing Animal Models To Understand Complex Diseases and Dietary Influences: Obesity as an Example Daniel Pomp, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
11:10 - 11:20 am	Discussion
11:20 - 11:45 am	Using Pathway Analysis To Go Beyond Simple Genomics Chris Evelo, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
11:45 - 11:55 am	Discussion
11:55 - 12:20 pm	Metabolomics in the Study of Aging and Caloric Restriction Bruce S Kristal, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
12:20 - 12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
Session 7	Frontiers in Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics: Building Partnerships Cochairs: Artemis P Simopoulos, President, ISNN, Washington, DC John A Milner, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD
1:30 - 1:55 pm	Opportunities and Challenges for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Claudine J Kavanaugh, FDA, Rockville, MD
1:55 - 2:05 pm	Discussion
2:05 - 2:30 pm	Opportunities and Challenges for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Joseph T Spence, USDA, Beltsville, MD
2:30 - 2:40 pm	Discussion
2:40 - 3:05 pm	The Assessment of Diet-Genome Interactions and Their Translation for Public Health Impact: Opportunities and Challenges for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Renée M Ned, CDC, Atlanta, GA
3:05 - 3:15 pm	Discussion
3:15 - 3:40 pm	Genes, Agriculture, Human Health, and the Climate Issue: Opportunities and Challenges Ole Faergeman, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
3:40 - 3:50 pm	Discussion
3:50 - 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 - 4:25 pm	Building Industry-Academia Partnerships Peter J Gillies, Dupont, Wilmington, DE
4:25 - 4:50 pm	Tailoring New Zealand Foods To Match People’s Genes Lynnette R Ferguson, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
4:50 - 5:20 pm	General Discussion
5:20 - 5:35 pm	Adjournment Raffaele De Caterina, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy

Planning Committee

Chairpersons

John A Milner, NCI, NIH
Artemis P Simopoulos, ISNN

Participants

Cindy D Davis, NCI, NIH
Joseph R Hibbeln, NIAAA, NIH
David M Klurfeld, ARS, USDA
John Paul SanGiovanni, NEI, NIH
Pamela E Starke-Reed, NIDDK, NIH