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Preliminary Speaker List
- Michael Affolter, Nestle - Peptidomics of hydrolysed infant formulas
- Sharon Donovan, University of Illinois - Non-invasive assessment of intestinal gene expression profiles in breast- and formula-fed human infants using exfoliate epithelial cells collected from stool
- Felicie Faucon, Institute de l’Elevage, France - PhenoFinlait: the first overview of French farm systems
- Katie Hinde, UC Davis - Lactational programming – mother’s milk energy predicts infant behavior and temperament in rhesus macaques
- Christophe Lefevre, Deakin University - MamExp: an interactive gene expression browser interface for collaborative comparative lactation genomics
- Danielle Lemay, UC Davis - From genes to milk: genomic organization of the mammary transcriptome into gene neighborhoods
- Ardythe Morrow, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Peggy Neville, University of Colorado, Denver - The insulin receptor is necessary for mammary gland differentiation in murine pregnancy
- Monique Rijnkels, Baylor College of Medicine - A view of the epigenetic landscape in the developing and lactating mammary gland
- Guy Vergeres, Agroscope Liebefeld- Posieux ALP, Switzerland - A nutrigenomic strategy to assess the physiological properties of dairy products
- Robert Ward, Utah State University - Effects of supplementing the AIN-76A diet with milk fat globule membrane on parameters of gut health, fecal microbiota and systemic lipid metabolism
The program also includes a poster session and graduate student presentations from winners of the 2010 Student Travel Award:
- Pauline Brenaut, French National Institute for Agriculture Research (INRA) - The milk fat globule to unravel mammary epithelial cell defense elicited in response to intramammary infection
- Daniel Garrido, UC Davis - Oligosaccharide binding proteins from Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveal a preference for milk and host glycans
- Vinuthan Kodappa, University of Sydney - Investigation of milk protein bioactivity
- Palaniappan Ramanathan, USDA, ARS, PIADC - Characterization of microRNA expression in secretory activation
- Saumya Wickramasingh, UC Davis - Analysis of the milk transcriptome of transition and late lactation Holstein cows by Next Generation Sequencing Technology
Additional speakers will be announced