Carotenoids and Retinoids (CARIG) Symposium and GEM Forum: Carotenoids and Retinoids in Focus - Whole-Body Insights and Implications

Chair(s)

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  Naiman Khan, PhD, RD

  Associate Professor
  Kinesiology and Community Health
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Urbana, Illinois, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.

Co-Chair(s)

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  Michael Dzakovich, PhD

  Research Plant Physiologist
  USDA-ARS/Children's Nutrition Research Center
  Houston, Texas, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.

Speaker(s)

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  Jaime Amengual, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Urbana, Illinois, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Paul Bernstein, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
  Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

  Disclosure(s): Bausch & Lomb: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
  Heidelberg Engineering: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
  Kemin: Consultant (Ongoing); Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
  Neurotech: Consultant (Ongoing)
  OmniActive Health Technologies: Consultant (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
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  Ambria Crusan, PhD, MS, RD/LD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  St. Catherine University
  St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Tori Holthaus, PhD, RD (she/her/hers)

  PhD Candidate
  Division of Nutritional Sciences
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Urbana, Illinois, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Nancy Moran, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Pediatrics
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Katelyn Senkus, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Associate
  Pediatrics-Nutrition
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas, United States

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

The 2025 CARIG symposium will take a whole-body perspective to highlight research into nutritional roles, functions, and actions of carotenoids, retinoids and their metabolites on multiple aspects of health.

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM ET

  Introductions - Carotenoids and Retinoids (CARIG) Symposium and GEM Forum: Carotenoids and Retinoids in Focus - Whole-Body Insights and Implications
  

  Chair: Naiman A. Khan, PhD, RD – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Chair: Michael P. Dzakovich, PhD – USDA-ARS/Children's Nutrition Research Center
• 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM ET

  James A. Olson Award Lecture - Nourishing Better Vision: How Carotenoids Promote Ocular Health Throughout the Lifespan
  

  Speaker: Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
• 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

  Novel Pathways for Carotenoid Distribution and Elimination
  

  Speaker: Jaime Amengual, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

  Community-Based, Medically Tailored Grocery Interventions Promote Increased Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Improve Cardiometabolic Markers for Individuals With Hypertension
  

  Speaker: Ambria Crusan, PhD, MS, RD/LD (she/her/hers) – St. Catherine University
• 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM ET

  Break - Carotenoids and Retinoids (CARIG) Symposium and GEM Forum: Carotenoids and Retinoids in Focus - Whole-Body Insights and Implications
• 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM ET

  Skin Carotenoid Biomarkers of Food Intake in Children, Adults, and Pregnancy
  

  Speaker: Nancy E. Moran, PhD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
• 4:50 PM – 5:20 PM ET

  Carotenoids and Cardiometabolic Health in Pregnancy and Infancy
  

  Speaker: Katelyn E. Senkus, PhD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
• 5:20 PM – 5:50 PM ET

  Carotenoids and Neurocognition: A Whole Foods Approach
  

  Speaker: Tori A. Holthaus, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign