GSDA Spring Conference
Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/28/2018
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Garfield Community Center
Categories
Microbiome Basics and Maternal Milk Nutrition
Join us for GSDA’s annual Spring Conference, featuring two speakers plus an opportunity to network with your fellow dietitians. Johanna W. Lampe, PhD, RD, will speak on the relationship between diet, the gut microbial community and health, and Michelle McGuire, PhD, will follow with a talk on maternal nutrition and the human milk microbiome.
Talk Descriptions
Gut Microbiome, Dietary Fiber, and Human Health: The Basics
This talk will cover the basics of studying the gut microbiome and will illustrate how diet, and dietary fiber in particular, influences gut microbial community structure and function and how the microbiome influences dietary constituents.
What’s normal? Exploring global variation in human milk and infant fecal microbiomes
Researchers and clinicians have long known that breastfed and formula-fed infants have distinctly different gastrointestinal microbiomes, and these differences have been largely ascribed to factors such as complex carbohydrates (human milk oligosaccharides) present in breastmilk but not formula. However, human milk itself is now recognized to be a rich source of diverse bacteria to the breastfed infant. This talk will describe what is known (and not known) about global variation in and origin of the human milk microbiome and how these bacteria likely modulate the recipient infant’s gastrointestinal tract.
Event Details
Parking: Free on site
Cost: $15 members, $25 non-members, $5 student members (cash or check only at event)
RSVP: greaterseattleda@gmail.com
Snacks will be included
Speaker Bios
Dr. Johanna Lampe is a Full Member and Associate Division Director in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Core Faculty in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in nutritional sciences, with a minor in biochemistry, from the University of Minnesota and trained as a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota before joining the faculty at Fred Hutch. Dr. Lampe’s research at Fred Hutch focuses on the effect of diet constituents on cancer susceptibility in humans and the effects of human and gut microbial genetic variation on response to diet.
Dr. Michelle (Shelley) McGuire is an internationally recognized human nutritionist and Professor at Washington State University who conducts research related to maternal and infant health – particularly during the period of breastfeeding. Her research has spanned a variety of nutrients and topics including micronutrients, lipids, fatty acids, hormones, and most recently microbes in human milk. She also has a long-standing interest in understanding and elucidating the physiologic mechanisms regulating duration of postpartum anovulation during breastfeeding as well as mammary inflammation (mastitis).
In collaboration with her husband, Dr. Mark McGuire, her research has taken her around the world and connected her with colleagues in a variety of disciplines including anthropology, microbiology, immunology, and epidemiology. Their recently completed, large, international, cohort study (INSPIRE, What’s Normal?) has convincingly shown that human milk composition is not a one-size-fits-all construct and may have been shaped by evolutionary selection, culture, and environment to optimally nourish infants living in a particular location and perhaps even household. Dr. McGuire is also a seasoned science communicator and has coauthored 2 college-level, nutrition textbooks: Nutritional Sciences: From Fundamentals to Foods (in its 3rd edition) and NUTR (in its 2nd edition). She has also served as National Spokesperson and executive board member for the American Society for Nutrition and executive committee member and secretary/treasurer for the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation. She has, for over 2 decades, taught introductory nutrition to a large-enrollment class (up to 500 students) and science communications at Washington State University. Shelley lives in Moscow, Idaho with her husband. When she isn’t engaged in teaching and research, Shelley enjoys cooking, running, yoga, gardening, and traveling (and eating) with her family.