The Cancer Center at Illinois Cancer Technology & Data Science Program and the IGB Center for Genomic Diagnostics will co-host a working group workshop on nutritional biomarkers and biosensing technologies. Lunch will be provided to those who register by October 3.
Register here.
Nutrition is a fundamental aspect of our health with far-reaching impacts that include fetal development, obesity, cancer, aging, gut microbiome, hormone action, cognition and immune response. The foods we consume through our lifespans have an impact upon gene expression that is measurable through the presence of molecular biomarkers in tissues and bodily fluids. Circulating free DNA, messenger RNA, microRNA, proteins, and metabolites are among the targets that can be quantified using selective and sensitive biosensors.
This 90-minute workshop will feature presentations from world-leading Illinois faculty who will share their vision and perspectives for identifying important nutrition-related biomarkers and monitoring them using technologies that range from next-generation sequencing to wearables. Our goal is to get better acquainted with the interests and capabilities of colleagues in multidisciplinary fields to discover areas of collaboration.
Schedule:
11:30 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
Introduction
Brian Cunningham
11:35 a.m. - 11:47 a.m.
“Circulating biomarkers for preclinical studies of cancer and metabolic dysfunction”
Andrew Smith
11:47 a.m. - 11:59 a.m.
“Spatial transcriptomics reveals metabolic heterogeneity in breast and lung cancers: Implications for stress signaling and nutritional interventions on cancer disparities”
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
12:00 - 12:12 p.m.
“Decoding Our Diet: Biomarkers as a Tool for Mapping Diet-Health Interactions”
Hannah Holscher
12:12 p.m. - 12:24 p.m.
“Non-invasive detection of intestinal gene expression: Transitioning from bench to bedside”
Sharon Donovan
12:25 p.m. - 12:37 p.m.
“Soft bioelectronics and sensors”
Cunjiang Yu
12:37 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
“Biosensor approaches for rapid, inexpensive, and frequent analysis of nutritional biomarkers”
Brian Cunningham
12:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Discussion
1:00 p.m.
Adjourn