Learnings and Challenges Developing the Largest Gut Microbiome Discovery Platform — From Bench to Commercial Application
June 30, 2021
Virtual, Event
Fungi in the Gut: An Overlooked Domain of the Human Microbiome
June 24, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join the IAFNS Gut Microbiome Committee and the nutrition science community for a dialogue with Dr. Joe F. Pierre of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center on his work elucidating the role of the gut mycobiome.
Read more about Fungi in the Gut: An Overlooked Domain of the Human Microbiome
2021 IAFNS Annual Meeting
June 16, 2021 – June 17, 2021
Virtual, Event
IAFNS 2021 Annual Meeting – Advancing Science for Impact.
IAFNS 2021 Annual Meeting Session 3
June 16, 2021
Virtual, Event
New Innovations in Food Allergy Testing and Patient Care.
Listening Session for PPP to Improve Food Safety Capacity Building
June 15, 2021
Virtual, Event
UMD-JIFSAN, IAFNS, and Structured Partnerships invite you to join us for a listening session as we look to establish a new Public-Private Partnership focused on Data Sharing to Improve Food Safety Capacity Building.
Read more about Listening Session for PPP to Improve Food Safety Capacity Building
- -Food supply and formulation decisions
- -Food for health promotion and disease management
- -New frontiers in food allergen management
- -Measurement of protein digestibility
- -Novel environmental controls for food safety - and more!
The IAFNS 2021 Annual Meeting will take place on June 16-17th, with an opening reception on June 15th.
ScheduleOpening Reception
Happy Hours
"Let's Talk!" Interviews
Discussion on COVID-19 and the Food Supply Chain 
Connecting Food and Agriculture
Food Innovation:10 Year Futurecasting
Learn about new members of the IAFNS community
Science Symposium
Nutrition Keynote
Barbara Schneeman, PhD, University of California, Davis (formerly FDA)
Wednesday, June 16th, 11:30am-12:15pm ET
Food Safety Keynote
Mindy Brashears, PhD, Texas Tech University (formerly USDA)
Thursday, June 17th, 10:00-10:45am ET
What's on Our Plates? The Role of Food in Maintaining Health and Managing Disease
Wednesday, June 16th, 12:30-1:45pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsEnvironmental Controls for Food Safety: Managing Outside the Box
Wednesday, June 16th, 2:30-4:00pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsNew Innovations in Food Allergy Testing and Patient Care
Wednesday, June 16th, 4:30-6:00pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsLow- and No-Calorie Sweeteners: How Much is Too Much?
Thursday, June 17th, 11:30am-1:00pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsAvoiding Health Flip-Flops in a Changing Food Supply
Thursday, June 17th, 2:00-3:30pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsEstablishing in vitro Protein Digestibility as an Alternative to Animal Testing
Thursday, June 17th, 4:30-5:30pm ET
Session and Presenter DetailsQuestions? Email science@iafns.org
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Scientists estimate that food allergies affect at least 32 million Americans, including approximately 6 million children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that food allergies in children have increased by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, with an even higher increase for peanut allergies. Recent years have seen significant advances in understanding of responses to food allergens such as the development of dose-response models that hold promise for developing more informative labels on food packaging. This session will highlight new research and innovations to enhance food allergen risk assessment and management. These include novel, safe methods for accurate diagnosis of food allergies and severity, and new initiatives for optimizing large-scale research trials and enhancing patient care.
The Current US Food Allergen Regulatory LandscapeStefano Luccioli, MD
Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Food Additive Safety, FDA CFSAN The FARE Clinical Network: Advancing New Treatments and Preventive Therapies for Food Allergy Patients
Bruce Roberts, PhD
Chief Research Strategy and Innovation Officer, Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) Opening the Allergy Black Box: The Path to Risk-Free Challenge Testing
Paul Kearney, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, AllerGenis
Moderator:
Jason Hlywka, PhD
The Kraft Heinz Company
Continuing Education Hours: IAFNS is an approved Continuing Professional Education (CPE) provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 1.5 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this live session.
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IAFP 2018 Annual Meeting
July 8, 2018 – July 11, 2018
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2018 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting
IAFNS Research Design Challenge
June 9, 2018 – June 12, 2018
Boston, USA
Research Design Challenge Objective: Demonstrate proof of principle for novel research designs to integrate more safety measures in research with the primary purpose of testing efficacy of dietary bioactives.
IAFNS Mid-Year Science Program
June 26, 2018
Arlington, VA, USA
The IAFNS Mid-Year Meeting combines presentations on topics of current interest with reports on progress within the organization’s new and on-going programs.
ASN Nutrition 2018
June 9, 2018 – June 12, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
IAFNS supported several sessions at ASN’s NUTRITION 2018
ISSFAL 2018 Biennial Congress
May 27, 2018 – May 31, 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
13th Congress of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL)
- Lay of the Taste Land - Taste Evolution, Mechanisms, and Functions
Gary Beauchamp, PhD, Monell Chemical Senses Center - Non-Mechanistic Determinants of the Taste Experience: How Culture, Environment, and Habit Influence Taste
John Hayes, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University - Sensory Properties of Food and Implications for Food Choice
Chris Simons, PhD, Ohio State University - Improving the Nutritional Profile of Products While Maintaining Taste: Industry Perspective
Jane Leland, PhD, Consultant - Modifying Consumer Preference to Improve Dietary Choices
Debra Zellner, PhD, Montclair State University - What Do We Know About Taste and Food Choice?
Naomi Fukagawa, PhD, USDA ARS Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
Saturday, June 9th, 2018. Supported by the Scientific Integrity Consortium. IAFNS is an active member of the Consortium.
- Session Chair
James House, PhD, University of Manitoba - Best Practices in Nutrition Science to Earn and Keep the Public's Trust
Patrick Stover, PhD, Texas A&M - Report from the Scientific Integrity Consortium: Principles & Best Practices
Catherine Woteki, PhD, Iowa State University - Using Risk of Bias Domains to Identify Opportunities for Improvement in Food- and Nutrition-related Research: An Evaluation of Research Type and Design, Year of Publication, and Source of Funding
Esther Myers, PhD, RD, FADA, EF Myers Consulting, Inc. This talk was supported by the IAFNS Assembly on Scientific Integrity.
Monday, June 11th, 2018. Supported by the IAFNS Dietary Lipids Committee.
- Overview: The Need for Guidelines and the Process
J. Thomas Brenna, PhD, University of Texas at Austin - Study Design and Interpretation
Melanie Plourde, PhD, Université de Sherbrooke - Laboratory Analysis and Reporting
Peter Jones, PhD, University of Manitoba
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018. Supported by the IAFNS Sodium Committee.
- Introduction and Session Overview
Moderator/Session Chair: Christine Taylor, PhD, FDA (retired) - Relationship of Sodium and Potassium to Chronic Disease: AHRQ Systematic Review
Janet de Jesus, MS, RD, HHS, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion - Developing Guidance for Inclusion of Chronic Disease Endpoints in DRIs: Implication for Sodium and Potassium
Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Overview of FDA Sodium Reduction Guidance
Christine Taylor, PhD, FDA (retired) - Progress in Sodium Reduction by the Food Industry
Joshua Anthony, PhD, MBA, The Campbell Soup Company
This symposium aims to highlight recent scientific discoveries addressing how availability of distinct nutrients, along with genetic differences in nutrient metabolism capacity, affect the elaborate cellular and molecular processes that take place during brain development, focusing on basic science and clinically-‐relevant scientific advances.
Symposium Chair:Christopher Lynch, PhD, NIH, Director, Office of Nutrition Research
Chief, Nutrition Research Branch
Speakers:
Development of the Brain During the First 1000 Days of Life:Lisa Freund, PhD, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Child Health and Human Development Iron: A Key Nutrient and a Paradigm of Nutrient-Brain Interactions:
Michael Georgieff, MD, University of Minnesota The Relation Between Maternal Genotype, Lipid Intake and Metabolism, and Infant and Toddler Cognitive Performance:
Carol Cheatham, PhD, UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute The Impact of Maternal Choline Metabolism on Brain Development:
Steven Zeisel, MD, PhD, UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute
More information about Nutrition 2018 is available here.
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