Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism

Clinical and Translational Nutrition

Career and Professional Development

Experimental Animal Nutrition & Nutritional Immunology and Inflammation Joint GEM Forum - Diet, Microbes, and Machine Learning: New Tools for Advancing Nutrition Research

Chair(s)

• MA

  Mary Andreae, PhD, RD, LDN (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor / Nutrition
  East Tennessee State University
  Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• 

  Marie van der Merwe, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Memphis
  Memphis, Tennessee, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Speaker(s)

• 

  Jordan Bisanz, PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
• 

  Danielle Lemay, PhD

  Research Molecular Biologist
  Western Human Nutrition Research Center
  USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center
  Davis, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
• 

  Sumudu Rajakaruna, PhD

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  The Pennsylvania State University
  Howard, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
• SR

  Shannon Rose, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Nursing
  Memphis, Tennessee, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
• 

  Stephen Watts, PhD

  Professor
  Department of Biology
  University of Alabama Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

This session will highlight emerging approaches at the intersection of nutrition, immunity, and host–microbe interactions. The presentations will explore how nutrition strategies can influence disease risk through the diet–host–microbe axis, and how artificial intelligence tools are being applied to analyze complex nutritional datasets.