Agenda

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)Event
10:00 am – 10:10 amWelcome
Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:10 am – 10:40 amKeynote Lecture: Grace Aldrovandi (University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA)
"Milk, the Mother of Infant Health"
Chair: Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:10 am - 10:15 amIntroduction by the Session Chair
10:15 am - 10:35 amKeynote Presentation
10:35 am - 10:40 amQ&A
Moderator: Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:40 am – 12:20 pmSession 1: What's New in Human Milk Bioactives Research?
Chair: Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:40 am – 10:50 amIntroduction by the Session Chair
10:50 am – 11:05 amLars Bode (University of California San Diego, CA, USA)
“COVID and Human Milk Research”
11:05 am – 11:15 amDonna Geddes (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
“New Discoveries on Milk Compositions”
11:15 am – 11:25 amWeronika Hewelt-Belka (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
"New Tools and Applications in Human Milk Metabolomics"
11:25 am – 11:35 amPia Pannaraj (University of Southern California, CA, USA)
"Impact of the Human Milk Virome on Infant Health"
11:35 am – 11:45 amWen Yew (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
"Development of an Optimised Phage Isolation Protocol to Investigate the Emergent Phage Communities in Preterm Infant Mothers Breast Milk"
11:45 am – 11:55 amRose Doerfler (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
"Tracking the Fate of Milk Cells in Fostered Mouse Pups"
11:55 am – 12:20 pmQ&A/Panel Discussion
12:30 pm – 1:00 pmMeet-the-Expert Session: Career in Academia
Chair: Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
Panelists:
Sashi Ramani (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Lars Bode (University of California San Diego, CA, USA)
1:00 pm - 1:30 pmPoster Session I 
1:45 pm – 3:50 pmSession 2: Advances in Models (in vitro/in vivo) to Study the Biological Effects of Milk
Chair: Laxmi Yeruva (Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, AR, USA)
1:45 pm – 1:55 pmIntroduction by the Session Chair
1:55 pm – 2:15 pmMamata Sivagnanam (University of California San Diego, CA, USA)
“Modeling the Human Gut to Understand Effects of Human Milk”
2:15 pm – 2:25 pmJayne Martin Carli (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA)
Advancements Toward Accessing Functionally Relevant Human Mammary Epithelial Cells during Lactation
2:25 pm – 2:45 pmDouglas Burrin (USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center)
“Advances in Pediatric Animal Models for Studies of Biological Milk Effects”
2:45 pm – 2:55 pmFernanda Rosa (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
"Human Milk Oligosaccharides Impact Metabolic Pathways across Gastrointestinal Tract in germ-free Mouse Model"
2:55 pm – 3:15 pmParul Christian (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA)
“Mother-Milk-Infant Cohorts”
3:15 pm – 3:25 pmAndrea Chiara Masi "Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University"
"Human Milk Oligosaccharide DSLNT and Gut Microbiome in Preterm Infants Predicts Necrotising Enterocolitis"
3:25 pm – 3:50 pmQ&A/Panel Discussion

 

Day 2: Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)Event
10:00 am – 11:50 amSession 3: Human Milk Science: From Bench to Benefit
Chair: Ratna Mukherjea (Specialized Nutrition, IFF, St. Louis, MO, USA)
10:00 am – 10:10 amIntroduction by the Session Chair
10:10 am – 10:25 amLars Bode (University of California, San Diego, Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, USA)
“Overview of Human Milk Science”
10:25 am – 10:45 amErin Davis (University of Rochester, NY, USA)
“Maternal and Infant Intervention Trials - Design and Interpretation”
10:45 am – 11:05 amSun-Eun (Sunny) Lee (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
“Human Milk, Linking Knowledge and Impact for Lactating Women and Infant Health”
11:05 am – 11:25 amKalathur Ramanujam (Arla Foods, Denmark)
“Introduction of New Ingredients into Infant Formula”
11:25 am – 11:50 amQ&A/Panel Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmMeet-the-Expert Session: Career in Industry
Chair: Kal Ramanujam (Arla Foods, Denmark)
Panelists::
Rocio Martin (Danone)
Malika Boukhelifa (BIOMILQ)
12:30 pm – 1:00 pmPoster Session II
1:15 pm – 3:20 pmSession 4: Opportunities and Challenges in Human Milk Research
Chair: Lars Bode (University of California, San Diego, Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, USA)
1:15 pm – 1:25 pmIntroduction by the Session Chair
1:25 pm – 1:45 pmKellie Casavale (Food and Drug Administration) & Ashley Vargas (NICHD)
"Findings of the Human Milk Composition Initiative: Data Relevant to Federal Public Health Activities in the US and Canada"
1:45 pm – 2:05 pmSasirekha Ramani (Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA)
“Bioactive Factors in Breast Milk and Implications for Rotavirus Infections in Indian Infants”
2:05 pm – 2:25 pmGilberto Kac (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil)
"Bioactive Compounds in Human Milk and Infant Development and Growth: Results from a Brazilian Cohort"
2:25 pm – 2:35 pmMeghan Azad (University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Human Milk as a Biological System: a Proof-of-concept Machine Learning Analysis Identifies Established and Novel Associations between Human Milk Components and Infant Head Circumference"
2:35 pm – 2:45 pmVictoria Daniels (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Supplementation of Formula with 2'Fucosyllactose and/or Bifidobacterium Longum subsp. Infantis Modulates Immune Development of Piglets"
2:45 pm – 2:55 pmVanessa Castagna (Turtle Tree, USA)
"Opportunities for Cell Based Milk"
2:55 pm – 3:20 pmQ&A/Panel Discussion

 

Day 3: Thursday, June 24, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)Event
10:00 am – 12:15 pmSession 5: Allergy
 Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo (University of Rochester, NY, USA) and Daniel Munblit (Imperial College London, UK & Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia)
10:00 am – 10:10 amIntroduction by the Session Chair
10:10 am – 10:20 amKirsi Jarvinen-Seppo (University of Rochester, NY, USA)
“Human Milk and Allergy – Introduction”
10:20 am – 10:40 amValerie Verhasselt (University of Western Australia, Australia)
“Allergen Shedding in Human Milk: Key for Immune System Education and Lifelong Allergy Prevention”
10:40 am – 11:00 amMeghan Azad (University of Manitba, Canada)
“Lessons from the CHILD Cohort on Human Milk, Maternal Diet and Allergy”
11:00 am – 11:20 amMichael Perkin (St. George’s, University of London, UK)
“Breastfeeding and Allergy in the Clinical Settings”
11:20 am – 11:30 amKarla Rio (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
"Changes in Breast Milk Composition during the Transition Phase: Characterization of Immunotypes"
11:30 am – 11:40 amAkila Rekima (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
"Colostrum Drives the Development of Successful anti-helminth Immune Defenses"
11:40 am – 11:50 amMartijn van Herwijnen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
"Maternal Allergic Sensitization Affects the Protein and miRNA Cargo of Milk Extracellular Vesicles and Alters Their Functional Properties"
11:50 am – 12:15 pmQ&A/Panel Discussion
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmMeet-the-Expert Session: "Human Milk Research – A Combined Effort to Improve Maternal Infant Health"
Chair: Lars Bode, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Panelists:
Sharon Donovan (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
Ryan Carvalho (Nestle)
Andrew Bremer (NIH/NICHD)
Sun-Eun (Sunny) Lee  (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Kotaro Kaneko (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
1:45 pm – 2:45 pmSession 6: Young Researcher Session: from Publication to Press and Social Media
Chair: Stephen Fleming (Traverse Science, Inc., IL, USA)
1:45 pm – 1:55 pmIntroduction by the Session Chair
1:55 pm – 2:10 pmKristina Campbell (Science writer, Victoria, Canada)
"Finding Your Niche in Science Communication about Microbes and the Microbiome"
2:10 pm – 2:25 pmSara Moukarzel (UC San Diego, CA, USA)
"Becoming an Influencer on Social Media: Lessons Learned from Social Network Analysis"
2:25 pm – 2:45 pmPanel Discussion
2:45 pm – 3:20 pmKeynote Lecture: Berthold Koletzko (LMU, Munich, Germany)
"Future Perspectives for Public Private Partnership in Human Milk Research"
Chair: Ratna Mukherjea (Specialized Nutrition, IFF, St. Louis, MO, USA)
2:45 pm - 2:50 pmIntroduction by the Session Chair
2:50 pm - 3:15 pmKeynote Presentation
3:15 pm - 3:20 pmQ&A
Moderator: Ratna Mukherjea (Specialized Nutrition, IFF, St. Louis, MO, USA)
3:20 pm – 3:30 pmConference Closing Remarks
 Lars Bode (University of California, San Diego, Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, USA)