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The 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients

Name: The 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients
Start: 2020-11-02
End: 2020-11-15

Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease

02 - 15 November 2020

Online

Welcome from
the chairs

All participants of IECN 2020 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Nutrients Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease".

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Paper Award and Best Speaker Award.

Best Paper Award: Gut Microbiota is Linked to Physical Health Improvements Resulting from Energy Restricted Diet and Exercise: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Healthy Adults

Authors: Shakuntla Gondalia, Stephen Keenan, Regina Belski, Mathew Cooke

Best Speaker Award: Dr. David Nieman (A Multi-Omics Approach to Interpreting the Influence of Polyphenols in Countering Exercise-Induced Physiological Stress)

Electronic conferences - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease are a new series of conferences maintained through the Internet, an original initiative by MDPI. This will be the first electronic conference on Nutrients. Participation is free, with contributions including preliminary reports on cutting edge achievements, and registration is a distinctive standard of worldwide open Internet access.

These are some of the topics that we expect to cover:

1. Interrelationships among microbiota, poor nutrition choices, and chronic disease

Simple sugars, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome
Saturated fat and heart disease
Increased caloric intake and obesity
Interactive effects of physical activity

2. Potential nutraceutical effects of nutrients, phytochemicals, and microbiota in chronic metabolic disorders

Obesity
Inflammation
Metabolic syndrome
Insulin resistance and diabetes
Hypertension and dyslipidemias
Fatty liver disease

3. Brain–gut axis and chronic disease

Nutrients
Phytochemicals
Gastrointestinal health
Food/eating addiction
Interrelationship between gut–brain axis and gut–lung axis

Selected extended versions of the papers can be submitted to the conference Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease" in Nutrients with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge.

The Chairs of the First Electronic Conference in Nutrients.

Meet the Event Chairs

Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Fernandez

Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

Dr. Maria Dolores del Castillo

Food Bioscience Group, Department of Bioactivity and Food Analysis, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the Autonoma University of Madrid (UAM), Nicolás Cabrera 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadlineSep 25, 2020
Abstract acceptance notificationOct 05, 2020
Full file submission deadlineOct 15, 2020

Meet Our Speakers

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Prof. Dr. David C. Nieman

Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA;, Director of the Human Performance Laboratory,North Carolina Research Campus,Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA;
David Nieman is a professor with the Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, at Appalachian State University, and director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC, USA. Dr. Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of exercise and nutrition immunology, and his current work is centered on investigating unique nutritional products as countermeasures to exercise- and obesity-induced immune dysfunction, inflammation, illness, and oxidative stress using a multi-omics approach. Dr. Nieman has received more than USD $10.5 million in research grants and published more than 370 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books. Dr. Nieman’s Google Scholar h-index is 101, and his publications have been cited more than 39,000 times. He is the author of nine books on health, exercise science, and nutrition, including Nutritional Assessment (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019, now in its 7th edition). Dr. Nieman served as vice-president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), president of SEACSM, and two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology. He received ACSM’s Citation Award in 2013.

Dr. Laura R. McCabe

Department of Physiology, Biomedical Imaging Research Center, Michigan State University, Biomedical Physical Science Building, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA;
Laura R. McCabe is a Michigan State University Foundation Endowed Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Radiology. McCabe has over 100 publications, reviews and chapters and has been funded by a variety of federal (NIH, NSF, NASA, DOD) and foundation (American Diabetes Association, Crohn’s and Colitis) agencies. Her graduate training at U Chicago examined diabetes-induced changes in intestinal epithelial cell gene expression and function. Her post-doctoral training at U Mass Medical Center, focused on molecular mechanisms regulating osteoblast differentiation. Her current research combines her expertise by focusing on the role of gut-bone signaling in mediating (and preventing) osteoporosis associated with disease and aging. Working with probiotics, genetically modified mice and bacteria, and compounds that modify gut function, the lab is occupied with pinpointing mechanisms of intestine-bone signaling and identifying novel gut-targeted therapies to prevent osteoporosis.

Dr. Miguel Gueimonde

CSIC - Instituto de Productos Lacteos de Asturias (IPLA), Villaviciosa, Spain;
MSc in Biological Sciences (1997) and PhD (2002), both at the University of Oviedo. From 2002 to 2005 postdoctoral researcher at the Functional Foods Forum of the University of Turku (Finland). Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku (2006-now), and Research Scientist at IPLA-CSIC (2008-now). Research interest on the area of probiotic bacteria and the study of intestinal microbiota and the factors determining its composition. Supervisor of 5 PhD Theses (plus 1 underway) and over 12 MSc Theses. Author, or co-author, of over 170 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 52), several book chapters and monographs and external expert in different working groups at the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the International Dairy Federation (IDF).

Prof. Dr. Margarida Castell

Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Bioquímica i Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Av. Joan XXIII 27-31, 08028 Barcelona, EspanyaInstitut de Recerca en Nutrició i Seguretat Alimentària (INSA-UB), UB, Spain;
Margarida Castell is full professor in the Section of Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science, at the University of Barcelona, leading the research group of Autoimmunity and Tolerance. She is also member of the Research Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety at the University of Barcelona. Her research is centred on immunonutrition by searching the influence of nutrients on the immune system, particularly the intestinal lymphoid tissue, in rodents, since gestational life until adult life, and also in particular immune diseases, such as allergy. She is author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and she has been guest editor of special issues such as "Chocolate and Cocoa in Human Health", “Flavonoids, inflammation and immune system”, and "Natural Polyphenols and Health”. She has been principal investigator of numerous public research grants. She is founding member of the International Society of Chocolate and Cocoa in Medicine.

Dr. Raffaele Pilla

Pharmacist at Fatebenefratelli Pharmacy, Benevento, Italy, Researcher at University of Salerno, Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Fisciano (SA), Italy, Clinical Consultant at the service of Oncology at Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Benevento, Italy;

Dr. Ghada Soliman

Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy;
Dr. Ghada Soliman is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Doctoral Program Director in the Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She received her medical degree from Cairo University. Dr. Soliman earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson, the USA, with a major in Nutritional Biochemistry and a minor in Immunology and Microbiology. In addition, she completed her Dietetic Internship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and earned her post-doctoral fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Atherosclerosis, Lipoprotein Research, and Vascular Biology as well as translational research. Dr. Soliman’s transdisciplinary research portfolio spans cardiometabolic and cancer research, chronic disease prevention, microbiome, population health, school nutrition, systems biology, and laboratory-based nutrient metabolism. Her research integrates nutrigenomics, the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) signaling network, integrative microbiome, metabolomics, diet, and the exposome; as well as the use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) databases to investigate the causal role of mTOR and nutrients in diabetes and obesity, to explain health outcomes, and inform repurposing opportunities of FDA-approved mTOR inhibitors. She has a well-established track record in research and teaching and taught several courses on human nutrition across the life-course, community nutrition education, nutrient metabolism, biology, and pathogenesis of chronic and infectious diseases.

Prof. Dr. Raquel Abalo

Area of Pharmacology, Department of Basic Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain;
Dr. Raquel Abalo, Professor of Pharmacology at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URC), Head of the High Performance Research Group in Physiopathology and Pharmacology of the Digestive System (NeuGut-URJC) and Head of the Area of Pharmacology at the Dept. of Basic Health Sciences (URJC). She received her PhD in Biological Sciences at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain, 2000). Immediately afterwards, she was appointed as an instructor of Pharmacology and Nutrition at URJC, where she continued her research as an Assistant Professor in 2007, as an Associate Professor in 2011, and as a Full Professor in 2017. Her field of expertise is the gastrointestinal tract where she has studied the side effects of different drugs (cannabinoids, opioids, chemotherapy). More recently, she has started to study gastrointestinal alterations in models of diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, schizophrenia and sepsis. In all of them, she looks for new pharmacologic and nutritional/nutraceutical strategies to improve altered gastrointestinal function. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on more than 30 grants from different scientific funding agencies (national public funding and funding from private entities, like Fundación Mapfre) and industry (Laboratorios del Dr. Esteve, Allergan) since 2000. She has published more than 75 peer-reviewed scientific research papers, review papers and book chapters/editorials.

Dr. Raúl Beltrán-Debón

MoBioFood Research Group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, c/Marcel·lí Domingo n 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain;
Raúl Beltrán Debón is a visiting professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Rovira i Virgili University since 2015. He studied Biochemistry at the same University and did his doctoral thesis at the Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV) where he studied the possible modulating effects of polyphenols on inflammation and metabolism in the context of obesity and hepatic steatosis. He is member of the Molecular Bioactivity of Food Research Group (MoBioFood) since 2018. He has directed a doctoral thesis and participated in more than 80 papers published in international journals with 2031 citations that show an h-index of 26 according to the Web of Science (October 2020).

Dr. Jaime Uribarri

Mount Sinai hospital, NY, USA;
Dr. Jaime Uribarri is a practicing nephrologist and clinical investigator in NYC. He was born in Chile and received his medical degree from the University of Chile School of Medicine. He did all his postgraduate training in the United States. He has been in The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, since 1990, where he is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Renal Clinic and the Home Dialysis Program at the Mount Sinai Hospital. In parallel with his clinical activities, Dr Uribarri has been very active in clinical investigation for the past 30 years. His main areas of research have been on acid-base and fluid and electrolytes disorders as well as nutrition in chronic kidney disease and diabetic patients. He has published almost 200 peer-reviewed papers and written many chapters in books. He has lectured extensively on these research topics in New York City as well as in national and international meetings. He has edited a book on dietary AGEs and co-edited a book on dietary phosphorus published by the CRC Press. He serves as an ad hoc referee for numerous nutrition, medical and other scientific journals and he is an active member of several health organizations and professional associations including: The American Society of Nephrology, The American Society of Nutrition, The International Society of Nephrology, The New York Academy of Sciences, and The Maillard Society.

Prof. Dr. Rosaura Leis

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Unidad de Gastroenterología, Hepatología y Nutrición Pediátrica. Grupo de Investigación Nutrición Pediátrica. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS). Complejo Hospitalario Univers;
Pediatrics professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela. University Clinical Hospital of Santiago. Chief of the Unit of Pediatrics Gastroenterology, Hepathology and Nutrition. PI Group Nutrición Pediátrica. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS). Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela. Spain PI Group Nutrición, Crecimiento y Desarrollo Humano de Galicia (GALINUT), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Member of the Nutrition Committee of the Pediatrics Spanish Association. Member of Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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1. Interrelationships among microbiota, poor nutrition choices, and chronic disease
2. Potential nutraceutical effects of nutrients, phytochemicals, and microbiota in chronic metabolic disorders
3. Brain–gut axis and chronic disease
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