Agriculture & Health Summit

In @MicrobiomeTimes Profs. Andrew Benson & Bruce German describe their vision of how to create foods that support health and potentially help steer away from chronic disease, via the gut microbiome: microbiometimes.com/food-for-healt…

@Bernd_Schnabl So glad you could join! Great presentation 🙌

Excellent program at the Ag&Health Summit, congrats to the organizers #aghealthsummit

Thank you to all of our viewers, sponsors, supporters and committee members who made the Agriculture & Health Summit possible! That's a wrap! #aghealthsummit

Panelists at #AgHealthSummit share tips for successful innovation & commercialization: - Shape your products according to technical challenges such as keeping probiotics stable - Keep in mind how consumers will consume the item - Make your spokesperson believable

Mitmesser sees innovation as shifting from a disease-focused healthcare model to a preventative model... and the way to get there is through scientific innovation. #AgHealthSummit

Wrapping up the day with a panel on scientific innovation for commercialization, led by Dr. Bob Hutkins: Dr. Patrick Veiga Alan Murray Dr. Susan Hazels-Mitmesser #AgHealthSummit

Dr. Andrew Benson now talks about quantitative trait loci that affect "microbiome-active traits" in food crops. A novel way to select food crops that have the potential to improve human health via the gut microbiome. #AgHealthSummit

Dr. Andrew Benson's invitro model allows to test several types of grains in hundreds of microbiomes. #invitro #microbiome #screening #research

This is one of my favorite stories: For a long time birds didn't eat sorghum lines with high tannin content, and now the people who live nearby can't taste tannin, who's doing the selecting? The birds, the farmers or the sorghum? check this pub for more: nature.com/articles/s4147…

Great talk by Dr. Flint-Garcia, happening now!

Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia will speak at the inaugural Ag & Health Summit on Oct. 11-13 on the topic of The Genetics and Consequences of Maize Domestication and Breeding. Learn more & register: aghealthsummit.com

Dr. Sherry Flint-Garcia speaks about "The Genetics and Consequences of Maize Domestication and Breeding". She notes that our major food crops had wild progenitor varieties. #AgHealthSummit

Dr. Jianming Yu now takes the stage at #AgHealthSummit with a talk on "Coevolution among humans, plants, and environments linked by allelochemicals". Starting with a field experiment, his group discovered that tannins prevented sparrows from consuming sorghum grain.

Dr. Seth Murray of Texas A&M University goes through a case study on corn for whiskey to illustrate the scientific challenges of developing a new variety of corn. 🌽Could new corn varieties be developed using these methods to better support health?

Speaker Roundtable: Opportunities and challenges for microbiome active trait breeding in crop plants is happening now, starting with Dr. Seth Murray, Texas A&M University @DrSethMurray #aghealthsummit

Nathalie Delzenne of @UCLouvain_be and President of the Louvain Drug Research Institute now speaks about "New approaches to evaluate gut microbiome-nutrition interactions in health and diseases". #aghealthsummit

The next speaker is Alan Walker of Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK: "Challenges and prospects for stratified microbiome-based interventions in susceptible individuals". He will tell us about a group of gut microbes called lactate-utilizing bacteria (LUB)

Tiffany Weir: microbiome modulation has great potential for addressing disease and it's an active area of research, so why don't we have more microbiome-targeting therapies? She argues prevention may be the most promising approach. #AgHealthSummit

Next up at #AgHealthSummit is Tiffany Weir talking about using diet-induced gut microbiota modulation for effects on cardiovascular disease risk. ⬇️

Joël Doré talks about using nutrition to prevent dysfunctional host-microbe symbiosis in various disorders such as inflammatory diseases. #AgHealthSummit

Joël Doré, Research Director at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) @INRAE_France brings the ideas on diet, gut microbiota & health all together in a talk called "Nutrition in the prevention of altered host-microbes symbiosis"