Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Leigh Greathouse, PhD, MPH, MS, RD
Associate Professor of Nutrition Sciences
Baylor University
Waco, Texas, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Ana-Maria Porras, PhD
Assistant Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Kelly Swanson, PhD (he/him/his)
Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Disclosure(s): Bramble, Inc.: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Champion Petfoods: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Freshpet: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Kerry: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
Petsmart: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Phileo: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, July 21, 2024)
Tom & Sawyer: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
This panel discussion will feature panelists with experience using model systems to explore the interactions between microbes and food, nutrients, or other non-nutritive components of food outside of human or animal models. Panelists will briefly present their model system(s) and describe how they use their system(s) to answer important questions at the intersection of nutrition and microbiology.