NIH Sensory Nutrition and Disease Workshop
NIH Campus, Natcher Conference Center,
Bethesda, Maryland
November 12 – 13, 2019
Many of our most serious and intractable health problems—including obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and cancer—are linked to what we choose to eat and drink. What we choose to eat and drink is driven largely by the sensory properties of food: taste, smell, and texture. As molecular tools in model organisms become increasingly sophisticated, how can this new information be translated to testable hypotheses to the betterment of human health?
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Session 1: Setting the Stage
Taste Cells, Signals, and Nerves
Nirupa Chaudhari, Ph.D., University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Odor Detection in the Olfactory Bulb
John McGann, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Central Processing of Taste: Integration of Sensation with Behavior
Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Reshaping of Sweet Taste by High Dietary Sugar
Monica Dus, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Session II: Sensory Nutrition Public Health, and Disease
Introduction and Examining Smell and Taste in Large Cohort Studies
Valerie Duffy, Ph.D., RD, University of Connecticut
Human Cephalic-phase Insulin Response to Nutritive and Low-calorie Sweeteners
Richard Mattes, Ph.D., M.P.H., RD, Purdue University (Workshop Co-chair)
Personal Differences in Sensory Experience and Human Health
Danielle Reed, Ph.D., Monell Chemical Senses Center (Workshop Co-chair)
Early-life Flavor and Sweet Response as It Relates to Cognitive Development and Obesity
Emily Noble, Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Chemosensory Changes in Obesity and after Metabolic Surgery
M. Yanina Pepino, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hedonic Taste Shifts: Saltiness and Sweetness
Gary Beauchamp, Ph.D., Monell Chemical Senses Center
Chemosensory Changes in Aging
Claire Murphy, Ph.D., San Diego State University
Session III: Chemosensation Outside of Traditional Locations
Chemosensation in Nontraditional Locations – Overview
Jennifer Pluznick, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Intestinal Bitter Taste Receptor Activation Alters Hormone Secretion and Imparts Metabolic Benefits
Enrique Saez, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
Sweet Taste Receptors Modulate Glucose Absorption
George Kyriazis, Ph.D., College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Effects of Sensory Signaling in the Gastrointestinal Tract on Human Appetite and Food Intake
John McLaughlin, Ph.D., FRCP, The University of Manchester
Extra Gustatory Function of Bitter Taste Receptors in the Gut
Catia Sternini, M.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Microbial Endocrinology: How Evolved Intersections of Microbiology and Neurobiology Matter to Health and Sensory Nutrition
Mark Lyte, Ph.D., M.S., MT(ASCP), Iowa State University