Programme

6th September 2021 - 13:00 - 16:30 CEST

Session 1: Immunometabolism – From mechanisms to human interventions

Chairs: Stine Ulven & Michael Müller

Chairs' welcome

Fibre-poor Western diets fuel inflammation - Dr Quirijn de Mast (RadboudUMC, NL)

Environmental Signals Influencing Immunometabolism in Diabetes - Dr Rinke Stienstra (WUR, NL)

Global pandemics interconnected — Obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19 - Prof. Matthias B. Schulze (DIFE, DE)

Immunometabolism around the Clock - Dr. Annie M. Curtis (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, IE)

Role of lipid mediators in resolving inflammation – COVID-19 and beyond - Prof. Bente Halvorsen (UiO & University Hospital, NO),

Interactive poster sessions & social event organized by NuGO

7th September 2021 (09:00 - 17:30 CEST)

Session 2: How to feed the immune system – the role of nutrients and food bioactives for the immune system

Chairs: Lydia Afman & Manuel Suárez Recio

Nutritional effects on microbiota evolution - Andrew Macpherson (Univ. of Bern, CH)

Role of micronutrients for the immune system and COVID-19 - Prof. Philip Calder (Univ. of Southampton, UK)

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: an environmental sensor integrating immune responses in health and disease - Prof. Jason Matthews (UIO, NO)

Nutritional Modulation of Immune Function: Analysis of Evidence, Mechanisms, and Clinical Relevance - Prof. Simin Meydani (Tufts, USA)

Fasting as an essential regulator of immune responses - Prof. Christoph Wilhelm (Univ. of Bonn, GE)

12:00 - 14: 00 : Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Selected short talks from abstracts & presentations from new members

15:00- 17:30 Lectures and Q&A

8th September 2021 (10:00 - 13:00 CEST)

Session 3: Nutrigenomics (precision nutrition) of the immune system

Chairs: Rosita Gabbianelli & Guy Vergeres

Regulating metabolic inflammation by nutritional modulation - A Nutrigenomics approach - Prof. Helen Roche (UCD, IE)

Precision Nutrition in Chronic Inflammation - Prof. Silvio Waschina (CAU, Kiel, DE)

Microbiome composition as a mediator of the link between diet and systemic inflammation: the PREDICT studies - Prof. Ana M Valdes (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)

Q&A

Selected talks from abstracts

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