Emerging Technology for Improved Diet and Microbiome Analysis

Chair(s)

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  Mary Kable, PhD

  Research Scientist/Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Nutrition
  USDA-ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
  Davis, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Grant/Research Support (Terminated)
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
  California Dairy Research Foundation: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
  National Honey Board: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

Speaker(s)

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  Scott Jackson, PhD

  Group Leader
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD

  Nutritional Physiologist
  Military Nutrition Division
  U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
  Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Colin Kay, PhD

  Professor
  University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
  Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Danielle Lemay, PhD

  Research Molecular Biologist
  Western Human Nutrition Research Center
  USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center
  Davis, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Human research examining how diet and gut microbiome interactions influence health is underway globally in the form of large-scale cohort studies as well as smaller dietary interventions. Researchers working to identify new diet-gut microbe relationships face a lack of resolution and a high degree of variability in both dietary and microbial data. New tools for dietary data collection, and gut microbiota analysis are rapidly being developed and existing tools adapted to help address these issues. As this field rapidly moves forward, we need to understand how to best apply new methods across varied study groups to obtain the most accurate and precise results possible. Join us as we explore how novel methods in diet assessment, microbiology and machine learning/AI are being applied to advance understanding of diet-microbiome interactions in health and disease.

Presentations:

• 4:00 PM – 4:05 PM CT

  Welcome and Introductions - Emerging Technology for Improved Diet and Microbiome Analysis
  

  Chair: Mary E. Kable, PhD – USDA-ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
• 4:05 PM – 4:15 PM CT

  Best Practices and Considerations for Conducting Research on Diet-Gut Microbiome Interactions
  

  Speaker: J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD – U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
• 4:15 PM – 4:35 PM CT

  Novel Computational Methods in Dietary Data Analysis
  

  Speaker: Danielle G. Lemay, PhD – USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center
• 4:35 PM – 4:55 PM CT

  Metabolomic Databases and Implications on Microbiome Science
  

  Speaker: Colin D. Kay, PhD – University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
• 4:55 PM – 5:15 PM CT

  Standards for Microbiome and Multi-Omics Measurements
  

  Speaker: Scott A. Jackson, PhD – National Institute of Standards and Technology
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT

  Panel Discussion - Emerging Technology for Improved Diet and Microbiome Analysis
  

  Chair: Mary E. Kable, PhD – USDA-ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center

  Speaker: Scott A. Jackson, PhD – National Institute of Standards and Technology

  Speaker: J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD – U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

  Speaker: Colin D. Kay, PhD – University of Arkansas Medical Sciences

  Speaker: Danielle G. Lemay, PhD – USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center