Saturday, June 9th, 2018. Supported by the IAFNS Taste and Diet Working Group.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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