Symposium Agenda
The 2021 Virtual Precision Nutrition and Brain Health Symposium features a keynote speaker in each of four areas as they relate to nutrition: brain development, the aging brain, nutrigenetics, and the gut-brain axis as well as speakers who are leaders in their fields of the effects of nutrition on brain development, genetics, and the gut-brain axis. The symposium features a networking opportunities to bring together leaders and trainees for organic discussions and a panel of funding agency experts to answer questions from the attendees.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
8:55 AM Morning Welcome & Housekeeping – Carol Cheatham
9:00 AM Keynote: Background on Nutrition & Brain Development
– Michael Georgieff
9:40 AM Moderation of the Effects of Environmental Toxicants on Brain Development
by Prenatal Nutrition and Genes – Edwin Van Wijngaarden
10:10 AM Alcohol as an Environmental Stressor that Alters Maternal-Fetal Nutrient Needs:
Choline & Iron in Developing Brain – Susan Smith
10:40 AM NRI Trainee Award Winner
10:55 AM Bio Break
11:05 AM Keynote: Womb with a View: Why the placenta is more conduit and
communicator than barrier – Kjersti M Aagaard
11:45 AM Prenatal Stress and the Developing Brain: From maternal microbes to
offspring microglia – Tamar Gur
12:15 PM Andrew Bremer – Chief Pediatric Growth & Nutrition Branch, NICHD
12:45 PM Breakout Rooms with Speakers
Friday, April 16, 2021
8:55 AM Morning Welcome & Housekeeping – Carol Cheatham
9:00 AM Keynote: MTHFR and Prenatal Brain Development – Rima Rozen
9:40 AM Gestational Dietary Deficiencies, Adult Behavior and
Gene Expression in Mice – Lisa Tarantino
10:10 AM Setting the Stage: How dietary factors in early life shape cognitive
development – Teresa Reyes
10:40 AM POSTER SESSION
11:25 AM Keynote: Aging, Microglial Cell Priming, and Discordant
Communication between the Immune System and Brain:
Is dietary fiber a counterbalance? – Rodney W. Johnson
12:05 PM Sex and Age-specific Effects of Prenatal Alcohol on Behavior
and Aging-related Disease in Mice – Sandra Mooney
12:35 PM Wild blueberry intervention and mild cognitive decline:
How precise were we? – Carol Cheatham
1:05 PM Breakout Rooms with Speakers
1:25 PM Wrap up