The 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Nutrients series
Nutrition, Saturated Fat, Caloric Intake, phytochemicals, Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, microbiota, Hypertension, fatty liver, Insulin Resistance, gastrointestinal health, physical activity
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.
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Elisa Yuan
Ms. Chloe Wang
Ms. Janet Lv
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
Conference Email: iecn2020@mdpi.com
Conference Calls
The First Electronic Conference in Nutrients will be held 2–15 November 2020. This conference aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of Nutrients. All proceedings will be available on https://iecn2020.sciforum.net/ for discussion and published in Proceedings (ISSN 2504-3900) for free.
The following topics will be covered:
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
The First Electronic Conference in Nutrients is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Nutrients. Our conference offers the opportunity to participate in an international, scholarly conference without incurring the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to attend this conference by presenting your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted online before 25 September 2020 at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the proceedings paper can be submitted by 15 October 2020. The conference will be held 2–15 November 2020.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance procedure for conference proceedings papers, please refer to the “Instructions for Authors”.
Time Schedule
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020
- Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: 5 October 2020
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2020
- Conference Open: 2-15 November 2020
Conference Chairs
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Dr. Fernandez’ area of research is the effects of dietary strategies and drug treatment to prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. She has received funding from the USDA, industry, and pharmaceutical companies to support her work on the mechanisms through which these dietary interventions or drug therapies reduce dyslipidemias, oxidative stress, and inflammation. In her research, Dr. Fernandez has employed different dietary regimes including the Mediterranean diet, carbohydrate restricted diets, inclusion of anti-oxidants from grapes, and, more importantly, she has established the lack of association between eggs and heart disease risk factors. She has ongoing collaboration studies with Mexico to determine risk factors for heart disease in children and diabetic individuals and conducted a study in the United Arab Emirates to evaluate risk factors for metabolic syndrome in this population. Dr. Fernandez was a member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Nutrition committee for four years. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Nutrients, a prominent journal in nutrition. She has authored 261 peer-reviewed papers, 14 book chapters, plus 242 scientific abstracts. Dr. Fernandez was the recipient of the Uconn Provost Award for Research in 2007, the Ed Marth award for mentoring in 2017, and the Career Research Award in 2020. She has been invited to present her work in the international arena including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Saudi Arabia South Korea, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates. During her tenure at Uconn, Dr. Fernandez has graduated 36 Ph.D. students from all over the world in the area of diet and heart disease who currently hold prominent positions in academia, industry, and government agencies. In addition, she has graduated 22 M.S. students and has mentored more than 30 undergraduate students in her laboratory.
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.
Dr. M. Dolores del Castillo is a Research Scientist with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She received her Ph.D. in food science and technology at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 1999. She was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission to complete her postdoctoral training in food and health at the University of Reading, U.K., and a Salvador Maradiaga grant for her training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Nutrition/Metabolism, Boston, USA. In 2004, Dr. del Castillo was appointed a Tenured Scientist at CSIC and as a Research Scientist in 2009. Since 2011, she has been the Head of Food Bioscience Laboratory at the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), a research institute belonging to CSIC and the Autonoma University of Madrid (UAM). She has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific research papers (51 in the last 10 years), 14 book chapters, and more than 20 articles in non-indexed journals, and has participated in more than 100 communications in national/international conferences, and authored 5 patents. She has been principal investigator for more than 10 research projects funded by different agencies and industry. She was a professor of the Ingredients and Functional Foods Module, Master in Food Quality and Safety of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain (2007–2018) and is currently a professor of the Master of Food Safety organized by the Official College of Veterinarians of Madrid. In the last five years, she has supervised more than 15 B.S., 20 M.S., and 6 Ph.D. theses. She is a Certified as Functional Foods Scientist by the FUNCTIONAL FOOD CENTER INC., USA (Certificate number: 1006FFC/FFI)
Conference Committee
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.
Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany
Dr. Antje Hebestreit is the head of the Lifestyle-Related Disorders Unit at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Germany. After her diploma in nutritional sciences and home economics and her Ph.D. in the field of nutritional epidemiology, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for Harvard University and as a consultant for the UN World Food Programme. Over the years, her work has focused on studying the role of dietary intake, dietary behavior, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors in the development of non-communicable diseases, and on primary prevention strategies for child and adolescent obesity.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Stefano Guandalini is Professor Emeritus and former Chief of the Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of the University of Chicago. He has served as President of SIGENP (Italian Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition), then of ESPGHAN (European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) and as founder and first President of FISPGHAN (the Federation of the International Societies for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition). He founded and served as first President of the NASSCD (the North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease, now SSCD - Society for the Study of Celiac Disease) from 2011-2013. He is also the Founder (and has been Medical Director until 2018) of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, one of the pre-eminent comprehensive centers for celiac disease in the country. Dr. Guandalini has presented over 400 invited speeches at national and international meetings and has organized 12 national and international meetings. He is the author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He contributed more than 30 chapters to gastroenterology books and has also published as Editor 5 books; the latest (Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Springer 1st ed. 2016, XXII, 913 p.) was published in 2016; its 2nd edition is presently in the making. ? • Recognized as one of Top 5% Doctors in the USA by Castle-Connolly, continuously since 2008 to 2020. ? • Named "Maestro di Pediatria" (Master of Pediatrics) by the Italian Society of Pediatrics in 2012. ? • Awarded the title of AGAF (American Gastroenterological Association Fellow) in recognition for outstanding professional achievements by the American Gastroenterology Association in 2017. ? • Awarded the “Gold Key Award” by the University of Chicago Medicine in recognition of an outstanding career in 2017. ? • Awarded the Frederic W. Schlutz Award for Lifetime Achievements by the Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, in 2018. ? • Awarded the Disti
Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS received her doctorate in Exercise Physiology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. In 2007 she joined Loyola University Chicago as a research associate, utilizing her training in the measurement of human metabolism, including whole body energy expenditure, diet and physical activity monitoring. In 2011, she completed her MS in Clinical Research Methods, in 2013 she obtained her MPH in Epidemiology, and in 2016 she was named a fellow of The Obesity Society. Her research is focused on obesity and health outcomes in populations of African-origin, specifically the role of intermediary metabolites, including metabolite profiles and short chain fatty acids derived from the gut microbiota. She is the principal investigator of two NIH-funded studies exploring the role of the gut microbiota in the development of obesity, sleep disorders and cardiometabolic risk in 5 African-origin populations.
Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology Università degli Studi Aldo Moro - Bari, Italy,
Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit Children’s Hospital - Giovanni XXIII, Bari, Italy
Pediatric Gastroenterology; Celiac Disease; Gluten Related Disorders; Probiotics; Prebiotics; Helicobacter Pylory; Gut Microbiota; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Gastroesophageal Reflux (pediatric); Gastrointestinal Functional Disorders (pediatric); Pediatric
Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, IN, USA
Dr. Weaver is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, Indiana and CEO of Weaver and Associates Consulting, LLC. She is an elected member of The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine since 2010. She is a fellow of the American Nutrition Society, the Institute of Food Technologists, the American College of Nutrition, and the American Heart Association. She is a member of the Board of ILSI GC and a on the Science Advisory Boards of FDA, Biofortis, the California Prune Boards, and YINI. Dr. Weaver is past president of American Society for Nutritional Sciences. Her honors include the Spirit of the Land Grant Award (2013), the Herbert Newby McCoy recipient (2012, this award is the most prestigious research honor given by Purdue University), the Trailblazer Award (2016) by the Institute of Food Technology (IFT) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), an award to recognize “exceptional leaders”, and the David Kritchevsky Lifetime Achievement Award (2017, American Society for Nutrition). Dr. Weaver was appointed to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for Americans. Dr. Weaver received a B.S. and M.S. from Oregon State University and a PhD from Florida State University in food science and human nutrition.
Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Elson Floyd School of Medicine, Washington State University-Spokane, 412 East Spokane Falls Boulevard, Spokane, 99202 WA, USA
Dr. Carbonero received his B.S. degree in Biology from Universite Joseph Fourier, France, his M.S. degree in Ecology from Universite Blaise Pascal, France and his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for three years. He has served on the faculty (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Food Science at the University of Arkansas since 2013, and is now a Faculty member of the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Washington State University.
Department of Biotechnology and Food Scientific, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz 90-924, Poland
Ass. prof. Katarzyna Śliżewska works at the Institute of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Scientific, Lodz University of Technology in Poland. The main subject of her research interests and research are lactic acid bacteria, human and animal probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. The most important scientific achievements include the selection of probiotic strains, the development of probiotic formulas intended as human dietary supplements and as feed additives in animal feed. Katarzyna Śliżewska belongs to the Polish Society of Microbiologists. Previous achievements in science, Katarzyna Śliżewska covers a total of 319 items, including 78 original works published in peer-reviewed journals, 5 author's books and 20 book chapters. She is the author of 15 patents and 8 patent applications. She delivered 67 oral presentations at conferences and seminars, presented 110 posters and 16 presentations at trade shows and inventions. Katarzyna Śliżewska has been awarded many times by the Rector of the Lodz University of Technology for her achievements in academic and didactic work. She has also received 3 awards from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for research projects and 1 silver and 6 gold medals at International Inventory Expos (Korea, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine).
Department Biochemistry & Biotechnology, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
Department of Odontostomatologic and Specialized Clinical Sciences, Sez-Biochimica, Faculty of Medicine, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Ranieri 65, 60100 Ancona, Italy
Francesca Giampieri obtained the PhD on “Food, Health and Drug”, at the Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine at the Polytechnic University of Marche and pursued the Specialization in Food Science in 2016 at the same University. She is a Professor of different International Masters in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, at the Universidad Europea del Atlantico (UEA), Santander, Spain and at the Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana (UNINI), Campeche, Mexico. She is the also the supervisor of more than 80 student thesis of the International Masters on-line in Nutrition and Dietetics, Ibero-American University Foundation (FUNIBER) and co-supervisor of 5 PhD students, at the Polytechnic University of Marche. She has extensive experience in field of chemistry, in the assessment of the nutritional and phytochemical composition of different foodstuffs, and in the field of biochemistry and nutrition, in the evaluation of the role of bioactive compounds from different dietary matrices on human health (especially strawberry and honey), and in particular on the biological mechanisms related to oxidative stress and inflammation, in different in vitro and in vivo experimental models. She is the author of about 136 papers in international scientific journals (according to Web of Science database h-index 29, 5983 citations, 16 papers awarded with the "Highly Cited Papers" by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics). In 2019 she was named "Highly Cited Researcher" and included in the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" list by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics, in the "Agricultural Sciences" category. She currently reviews scientific articles for over two dozen peer-reviewed journals, serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Berry Research and is in the editorial board of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), Nutrients (MDPI), Molecules (MDPI) and Antioxidants (MDPI), eFood and Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition & Metabolism (IOS Press). She has participated at several national, Eur
Elad Tako holds degrees in animal science (B.S.), endocrinology (M.S.), and physiology/nutrigenomics (Ph.D.), with previous appointments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, North Carolina State University, and Cornell University. As a Research Physiologist with USDA/ARS, and courtesy associate professor at Cornell University, Dr. Tako’s research focuses on various aspects of trace mineral deficiencies, emphasizing molecular, physiological, and nutritional factors and practices that influence intestinal micronutrient absorption. With over 150 peer-reviewed publications and presentations, he leads a research team focused on understanding the interactions between dietary factors, physiological and molecular biomarkers, the microbiome, and intestinal functionality. His research accomplishments include the development of the Gallus gallus intra-amniotic administration procedure, and establishing recognized approaches for using animal models within mineral bioavailability and intestinal absorption screening processes. He has also developed a zinc status physiological blood biomarker (red blood cell Linoleic Acid: Dihomo–Linolenic Acid Ratio), and molecular tissue biomarkers to assess the effect of dietary mineral deficiencies on intestinal functionality, and how micronutrients dietary deficiencies alter gut microbiota composition and function.
Pediatrics Section - Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi (Salerno), Italy
Dr Pietro Vajro graduated in Medicine and post-graduated in Pediatrics, and in Hepatology. At present he is Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Salerno, where he is in charge of the Residency Program in Pediatrics and is Director of the Clinical Pediatric Unit at the University Hospital. He spent two extended periods of training and research as "Assistant Etranger " at the Pediatric Hepatology Unit of Bicetre (France) directed by prof.Alagille and as “visiting Professor-Advanced NATO Fellow” at the Liver Center of the University of California - San Francisco. His main clinical and research interests are concentrated on pediatric liver diseases and on the correlation between systemic diseases, pediatric nutrition and hepatobiliary tract disorders. He published more than 200 original full papers in international peer reviewed journals and gave many invited speeches at relevant congresses/meetings. He participates/participated to the Editorial Boards (often as an Associate Editor) of several renamed international pediatric or gastro-entero-hepatology journals (including JPGN, DigLiverDis, Front Pediatr, ClinResHepato Gastr, J Hepatol, Nutrients).
Section of Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain,
Nutrition and Food Safety Research Institute (INSA), 08921 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain
Francisco J Pérez-Cano was born and educated in Barcelona. He studied the degree of Pharmacy (1999) at the University of Barcelona (UB) where he also studied different masters in higher education. He joined in 1996 as student to the “Autoimmunity and Tolerance Research Group” in the Department of Physiology. He moved to the Center for Immunology at the University of California-Irvine in 2003-2004 to complete his training and he defended his PhD about “Mucosal Immunity Acquisition in Early Life” in 2004. After that, he was hired as associate professor (2005), Lecturer (2007) and finally as a Permanent Lecturer (2011) in the Department of Physiology of the University of Barcelona. He is currently teaching different subjects in the Degrees of Pharmacy, Food Science and Technology, Human Nutrition and in several University Masters. He performed a post-doctoral training (2009) at the University of Reading (UK) and has participated in more than 50 research projects with public funding but also in collaboration with industry. Francisco has more about 100 peer-review manuscripts, a book and several book chapters in the field. Francisco’s research interests are Immunonutrition in early life. He has focused, on the one hand in the impact of cocoa, and its components, in immunity and microbiota in health conditions but also in disease by using models of acute/chronic inflammation and allergy. On the other hand, he has studied the impact of several components present in breast milk (whey proteins, lactoferrin, CLA, oligosaccharides, probiotic bacteria, etc.) at preclinical level on the developing immune function of infants but also under viral infections. His current line of research is focused on the effect of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics and its combinations on the neonatal immune system. Dr. Pérez-Cano is member of the Research Institute for Nutrition and Safety-UB (INSA-UB), Ambassador of the Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI), Board Member/Treasurer of the International Society of Immunonutrition(ISIN), Chief Editor of the Section “Nutritional Immunology”
Department of Public Health Experimental and Forensic Medicine University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Anna Tagliabue is Full Professor of Human Nutrition at the Medical School of the University of Pavia in Italy. She is in charge of teaching course on Human Nutrition and Dietetics and directs the Degree Course of Dietetics and the Human Nutrition and Eating Disorders Research Centre of the same University. She is medical consultant for ketogenic dietary therapies at the Mondino Neurological Foundation of Pavia. The principal topics of research pursued by Prof Tagliabue in her scientific career include: ketogenic dietary therapies for drug-resistant epilepsy and GLUT1-DS; the role of gut microbiota in health and diseases; the clinical and psychological assessment and management of obesity and eating disorders and the study of energy expenditure and body composition She is the author of more than 100 publications including scientific articles and book chapters on these topics.
Invited Speakers
Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA;,
Director of the Human Performance Laboratory,North Carolina Research Campus,Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA
A Multi-Omics Approach to Interpreting the Influence of Polyphenols in Countering Exercise-Induced Inflammation
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.
sports nutrition; exercise; immunology; inflammation; obesity; metabolomics; proteomics; lipid mediators
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.
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).
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
Polyphenols and Allergy
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.
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
Therapeutic Ketosis and Its Broad Field of Applications, the Ketogenic Diet, Ketone Esters and Ketone Salts in Metabolism
Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
The Interactions Between the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (Mtor) and the Microbiome
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.
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.
raquel.abalo@urjc.es
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).
raul.beltran@urv.cat
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.
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
Keynote Presentations
Presentation by Professor David Nieman
Relate Paper:
A Multi-Omics Approach to Interpreting the Influence of Polyphenols in Countering Exercise-Induced Physiological Stress
Presentation by Dr. Miguel Gueimonde
Relate Paper:
Microbiota-Diet Interaction Along Ageing
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Margarida Castell
Relate Paper:
Allergy Attenuation by Cocoa-Enriched Diets
Presentation by Dr. Raffaele Pilla
Video from "Nutrition Research Virtual 2020"
Relate Paper:
Clinical Applications of Ketogenic Diet-Induced Ketosis in Neurodegenerative and Metabolism-Related Pathologies
Presentation by Dr. Laura R. McCabe
Relate Paper:
Targeting the Intestine to Prevent Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis
Presentation by Dr. Raúl Beltrán-Debón
Relate Paper:
Modulation of Metabolic Changes Associated to Obesity and Aging Using a Grape Seed Proabthocyabidin Extract
Presentation by Dr. Ghada Soliman
Relate Paper:
The Interactions Between the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (Mtor) and the Microbiome
Presentation by Dr. Jaime Uribarri
Relate Paper:
Exogenous Ages, Microbiota and Their Role in Chronic Diseases
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Raquel Abalo
Relate Paper:
Influence of sex and diet on the gastrointestinal tract in a mice model with partial deficiency for TGF-β3
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Rosaura Leis
Relate Paper:
Lactose Malabsorption and Intolerance. The Role of Microbiota and Probiotics.
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be completed online by authors by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 25 September 2020.
- The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 5 October 2020.
- In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript along with a presentation and an optional video presentation of their paper (only PDF) until the submission deadline of 15 October 2020.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available at https://iecn2020.sciforum.net/ for discussion and rating during the conference from 2–15 November 2020.
- The open access journal Nutrients will publish a Special Issue of the conference proceedings papers.
- All accepted extended abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Proceedings series journals (ISSN: 2504-3900, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/proceedings).
- After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer atSciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online display.
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video should be no longer than 20 minutes and be prepared in one of the following formats:
- MOV
- MPEG4
- MP4
- AVI
- WMV
- MPEGPS
- FLV
Authors that wish to present a poster only, i.e., without proceedings paper, can do so in section I. Posters of this conference. Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in.
Accepted File Formats
- MS Word: Manuscripts prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Nutrients Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame that can superimpose the text and make the layout difficult.
- LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be collated into one ZIP folder (include all source files and images, so that the Conference Secretariat can recompile the submitted PDF). When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the First Electronic Conference in Nutrients LaTeX template files.
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1st International Electronic Conference - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease Microsoft Word template file and LaTeX template file
Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 × 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Formatting/Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of Nutrients. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ] and placed before the punctuation; for example, [1,2], [3] or [1–3]. All the references should be listed separately as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Author List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle names can be added. For papers written by various contributors, a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who significantly contributed to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties who provided only minor contributions should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Figures, Schemes, and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figures and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes, and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure, or a scheme.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
Event Awards
| Session | Title | Authors | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interrelationships among microbiota, poor nutrition choices, and chronic disease |
Gut microbiota is linked to caloric restricted diet and exercise-induced physical health improvements: A randomised clinical trial in healthy adults | Best Paper Award | |
| Potential nutraceutical effects of nutrients, phytochemicals, and microbiota in chronic metabolic disorders |
A Multi-Omics Approach to Interpreting the Influence of Polyphenols in Countering Exercise-Induced Physiological Stress | Best Speaker Award |
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch Best Paper and Best Speaker Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 1
The Best Paper Award is given for the paper judged as making the most significant contribution to the conference.Number of Awards Available: 1
The Best Speaker Awards are given to the best performers during the presentation.Terms and Conditions:
Best Paper Award
As a sponsor, Nutrients would like to award the best paper as elected by the conference committee. The award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Criteria for Evaluation of Best Paper Award:
- Full paper must be submitted to IECN 2020;
- Originality/novelty of the paper;
- Significance of content;
- Scientific soundness;
- Interest to the readers;
- English language and style.
Evaluation
- Each Evaluation Committee member will give an assessment for each applicant in terms of the criteria outlined above;
- The total score for each presentation will be ranked from highest to lowest;
- If two or more authors receive the same score, further evaluation will be carried out;
- All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.
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