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Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Dr. Hannah Holscher is a Professor of Nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative and is a member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Her research integrates clinical nutrition, microbiome science, and computational biology to investigate the impact of diet on human health. Dr. Holscher has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and leads multidisciplinary research projects funded by government agencies, foundations, food commodity boards, and private industry. She has held leadership roles in the American Society for Nutrition including Chair of the Nutrition Translation (2017-2020) and Nutritional Microbiology (2020 - 2023) Research Interest Groups. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP), the American Gastroenterological Association's Gut Microbiome Research & Education Scientific Advisory Board, and as an academic advisor to the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IFANS) Carbohydrate Committee. She is also an Associate Editor for Nutrition Research and a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Nutrition.
An Inconvenient Truth? Limited Impact of Diet on Human Gut Microbiota Communities
Saturday, July 25, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Disclosure(s): AG1: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Avocado Nutrition Center: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
California Walnut Commission: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Dairy Management, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, February 28, 2026)
Danone: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Haleon: Consultant (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Nestle Nutrition: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, August 31, 2024)
Olipop: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
PepsiCo, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, June 30, 2024)
WK Kellog: Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2025)
Diet-Microbiome Interactions: An Ecological Perspective for Nutrition Science
Saturday, July 25, 2026
4:35 PM - 4:52 PM ET
Disclosure(s): AG1: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Avocado Nutrition Center: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
California Walnut Commission: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Dairy Management, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, February 28, 2026)
Danone: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Haleon: Consultant (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Nestle Nutrition: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, August 31, 2024)
Olipop: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
PepsiCo, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, June 30, 2024)
WK Kellog: Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2025)
Saturday, July 25, 2026
5:43 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Disclosure information not submitted.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM ET
Disclosure(s): AG1: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Avocado Nutrition Center: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
California Walnut Commission: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, April 30, 2025)
Dairy Management, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, February 28, 2026)
Danone: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Haleon: Consultant (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Nestle Nutrition: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, August 31, 2024)
Olipop: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
PepsiCo, Inc.: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, June 30, 2024)
WK Kellog: Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2025)