Agenda

The Origins and Benefits of Biologically Active Components in Human Milk Conference

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)	Event
10:00 am – 10:10 am	Welcome Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:10 am – 10:40 am	Keynote 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 am	Introduction by the Session Chair
10:15 am - 10:35 am	Keynote Presentation
10:35 am - 10:40 am	Q&A Moderator: Maria Carmen Collado (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council, Valencia, Spain)
10:40 am – 12:20 pm	Session 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 am	Introduction by the Session Chair
10:50 am – 11:05 am	Lars Bode (University of California San Diego, CA, USA) “COVID and Human Milk Research”
11:05 am – 11:15 am	Donna Geddes (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) “New Discoveries on Milk Compositions”
11:15 am – 11:25 am	Weronika Hewelt-Belka (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) "New Tools and Applications in Human Milk Metabolomics"
11:25 am – 11:35 am	Pia Pannaraj (University of Southern California, CA, USA) "Impact of the Human Milk Virome on Infant Health"
11:35 am – 11:45 am	Wen 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 am	Rose Doerfler (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) "Tracking the Fate of Milk Cells in Fostered Mouse Pups"
11:55 am – 12:20 pm	Q&A/Panel Discussion
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Meet-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 pm	Poster Session I
1:45 pm – 3:50 pm	Session 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 pm	Introduction by the Session Chair
1:55 pm – 2:15 pm	Mamata Sivagnanam (University of California San Diego, CA, USA) “Modeling the Human Gut to Understand Effects of Human Milk”
2:15 pm – 2:25 pm	Jayne 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 pm	Douglas Burrin (USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center) “Advances in Pediatric Animal Models for Studies of Biological Milk Effects”
2:45 pm – 2:55 pm	Fernanda 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 pm	Parul Christian (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA) “Mother-Milk-Infant Cohorts”
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm	Andrea 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 pm	Q&A/Panel Discussion

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)	Event
10:00 am – 11:50 am	Session 3: Human Milk Science: From Bench to Benefit Chair: Ratna Mukherjea (Specialized Nutrition, IFF, St. Louis, MO, USA)
10:00 am – 10:10 am	Introduction by the Session Chair
10:10 am – 10:25 am	Lars 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 am	Erin Davis (University of Rochester, NY, USA) “Maternal and Infant Intervention Trials - Design and Interpretation”
10:45 am – 11:05 am	Sun-Eun (Sunny) Lee (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) “Human Milk, Linking Knowledge and Impact for Lactating Women and Infant Health”
11:05 am – 11:25 am	Kalathur Ramanujam (Arla Foods, Denmark) “Introduction of New Ingredients into Infant Formula”
11:25 am – 11:50 am	Q&A/Panel Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Meet-the-Expert Session: Career in Industry Chair: Kal Ramanujam (Arla Foods, Denmark) Panelists:: Rocio Martin (Danone) Malika Boukhelifa (BIOMILQ)
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Poster Session II
1:15 pm – 3:20 pm	Session 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 pm	Introduction by the Session Chair
1:25 pm – 1:45 pm	Kellie 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 pm	Sasirekha 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 pm	Gilberto 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 pm	Meghan 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 pm	Victoria 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 pm	Vanessa Castagna (Turtle Tree, USA) "Opportunities for Cell Based Milk"
2:55 pm – 3:20 pm	Q&A/Panel Discussion

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Time (US Eastern Time)	Event
10:00 am – 12:15 pm	Session 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 am	Introduction by the Session Chair
10:10 am – 10:20 am	Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo (University of Rochester, NY, USA) “Human Milk and Allergy – Introduction”
10:20 am – 10:40 am	Valerie 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 am	Meghan Azad (University of Manitba, Canada) “Lessons from the CHILD Cohort on Human Milk, Maternal Diet and Allergy”
11:00 am – 11:20 am	Michael Perkin (St. George’s, University of London, UK) “Breastfeeding and Allergy in the Clinical Settings”
11:20 am – 11:30 am	Karla Rio (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) "Changes in Breast Milk Composition during the Transition Phase: Characterization of Immunotypes"
11:30 am – 11:40 am	Akila Rekima (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) "Colostrum Drives the Development of Successful anti-helminth Immune Defenses"
11:40 am – 11:50 am	Martijn 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 pm	Q&A/Panel Discussion
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Meet-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 pm	Session 6: Young Researcher Session: from Publication to Press and Social Media Chair: Stephen Fleming (Traverse Science, Inc., IL, USA)
1:45 pm – 1:55 pm	Introduction by the Session Chair
1:55 pm – 2:10 pm	Kristina Campbell (Science writer, Victoria, Canada) "Finding Your Niche in Science Communication about Microbes and the Microbiome"
2:10 pm – 2:25 pm	Sara Moukarzel (UC San Diego, CA, USA) "Becoming an Influencer on Social Media: Lessons Learned from Social Network Analysis"
2:25 pm – 2:45 pm	Panel Discussion
2:45 pm – 3:20 pm	Keynote 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 pm	Introduction by the Session Chair
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm	Keynote Presentation
3:15 pm - 3:20 pm	Q&A Moderator: Ratna Mukherjea (Specialized Nutrition, IFF, St. Louis, MO, USA)
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm	Conference Closing Remarks Lars Bode (University of California, San Diego, Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, USA)