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Overview and goals of the workshop:
To enhance our understanding of diet-host-microbiome interrelationships and their impact on mucosal immunity and health outcomes, the Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) and NIAID, in collaboration with many other Institutes and Offices at NIH, have organized a workshop focused on understanding the critical dietary factors that regulate the development and function of the gastrointestinal immune system.
This workshop will investigate the impact of early exposures – including diet (human milk, infant formula, and beyond) and nutritional status – on mucosal homeostasis and gut mucosal immune development and the functional interactions of these biological systems with the gut microbiome, and their relationship to the development of digestive and immune-mediated diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and food allergies.
The goals of the presentations and discussion sessions will be to understand the current state of the science in the field, identify knowledge gaps, and to discuss steps needed to move forward to address these gaps related to the role of nutrition in maintaining or altering intestinal homeostasis during health and disease states across the lifespan.