VIRTUAL EVENT SCHEDULE
Monday, October 11th
1:00 - 5:30 pm US Central Time
1:00 – 1:30 Welcome
1:30 – 3:00 Plenary Session: Food for Health and Why it Matters
Moderator: Andrew Benson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Bruce German, Director, UC Davis Food for Health Institute
- Yolanda Sanz, Coordinator, MyNewGut Research Consortium, Spain
- Paul Ross, Director, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, Cork Ireland
3:00 - 4:30 Plenary Session: Cautionary Tales -- Diet-microbiome interactions contributing to disease
Moderator: Peter Mannon, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Eugene B. Chang, University of Chicago
- Wendy Garrett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Bernd Schnabl, UC San Diego School of Medicine
4:30 - 5:30 Poster Session I
(Networking platform to remain open for the duration of the event)
Tuesday, October 12th
8:00 – 4:00 US Central Time
8:00 - 9:00 Poster Session II
9:00 – 10:00 Speaker Roundtable: Dietary Components and Modulation of the Gut Microbiome—what does the catalogue look like?
Moderator: Devin Rose, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Eric Martens, University of Michigan Medical School
- Mark Morrison, University of Queensland
10:00 – 11:30 Plenary session: Complexity of the problem I —the challenge of understanding complex interactions between diet, microbiome, host, and health/disease across populations of humans.
Moderator: Jennifer Auchtung, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Laure Bindels, UC Louvain, Belgium
- Jens Walter, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, Cork, Ireland
- Vince Young, University of Michigan
11:30 - 1:00 Break
1:00 – 2:00 Panel Discussion: From Seed to Success-- Understanding the Opportunities and Barriers to Product Commercialization
Moderator: Eileen Murphy, PrecisionBiotics Group, Ireland
- Gareth Asten, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Acre Venture Partners
- Ivan Wasserman, Managing Partner, Amin Talati Wasserman, LLP
- Charlie Arnot, CEO, Center for Food Integrity
- Zac Lewis, CSO, Synbiotic Health
2:00 – 3:00 Panel discussion: Substantiation, standardization, and regulatory—what is the proper space for “Food for Health” products?
Moderator: Amy Smith, IFF
- Dan Merenstein, Georgetown University
- Mary Ellen Sanders, Dairy & Food Culture Technologies
- Colleen Cutcliffe, CEO, Pendulum Therapeutics
- Sibyl Swift, Vice President Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, cbdMD, Inc.
- Bob Durkin, Of Counsel, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
3:00 - 4:00 – Poster Session III
Wednesday, October 13th
8:00 – 3:30 US Central Time
8:00 - 9:00 - Poster Session IV
9:00 – 10:00 Speaker Roundtable: Complexity of the problem II - what are the best dietary components for targeting the microbiome to improve human health?
Moderator: Mark Morrison, University of Queensland
- Deanna Gibson, University of British Columbia Okanagan
- Bruce Hamaker, Director, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research
- Joël Doré, Research Director, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE)
10:00 – 11:30 Plenary session: Integrating prevention in susceptible individuals into disease management strategies
Moderator: Amanda Ramer-Tait, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Tiffany Weir, Colorado State University
- Alan Walker, Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Nathalie Delzenne, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and President, Louvain Drug Research Institute
11:30 – 1:00 Break
1:00 – 2:30 Speaker Roundtable: Opportunities and challenges for microbiome active trait breeding in crop plants
Moderator: David Hyten Jr, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Seth Murray, Texas A&M University
- Jianming Yu, Iowa State University
- Sherry Flint-Garcia, University of Missouri
- Andrew Benson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2:30– 3:30 Panel discussion: Taking it to the streets—commercializing innovation in the diet-microbiome space
Moderator: Bob Hutkins, University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Alan Murray, former CEO of NextFoods Inc, Consultant
- Patrick Veiga, Danone Nutricia Research
- Susan Mitmesser, Pharmavite Nurish