Flash Poster Presentations

Friday, May 9, 2025

1:00pm 

• Nisa Butt - One-carbon metabolite response to different forms of choline is altered by genetic variations of key enzymes in humans
• Zheng Hao (Howard) Chen - Substituting ultra-processed food consumption with minimally processed foods is associated with lower BMI and body fat mass in Canadian children
• Adrianna Greco - Development and application of a food group coding scheme for the evaluation of food-derived nutrient intake and dietary patterns in Canadian toddlers
• Julia Lévy-Ndejuru - How do weight-focused and non-weight-focused dietitians differ in the way they include eating pleasure when counseling higher weight adults?
• Megan Macasaet - Early-stage lung cancer patients display low diet quality and inadequate intake of nutrients for surgical recovery
• Boshra Mandour - Plasma fat-soluble vitamins and T cell function in adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes: data from the Nutrition and Immunity (NutrIMM) study
• Meryem Talbo -  Practical recommendations to manage postprandial glycemia in type 1 diabetes with gastroparesis
• Gabrielle Viscardi - Supporting healthcare providers to translate clinical practice guidelines on nutrition therapy: content and face validation of the Portfolio Diet toolkit for healthcare providers
• Maria Elena Wong Xian - Buttermilk-derived lipid soluble choline reduces intestinal permeability and modulates regulatory T-cell phenotype in obesity
• Shuting Yang - Quality assurance evaluation of the Portfolio Diet Program for knowledge translation and exploration by sex, gender, and social determinants of health in diverse communities at high risk of type 2 diabetes

Saturday, May 10, 2025

8:00am 

• Ala Alzubi- Fluctuations in intestinal health biomarker expression during distinct estrous cycle phases is modulated by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
• Bijou Andriambelo - Omega-3 fatty acids intake modulate the lipid composition of blood-to-brain varriers and cortex in APOE3 and APOE4 mice
• Taylor Bailey - Dietary lysine requirements during healthy human lactation
• Emma Burnett - Validation of a swine model for investigating postprandial lipemia and n-3 PUFA absorption and metabolism
• Kasra Ghazisaidi - Metabolic availability of methionine in cooked black mung bean in healthy adults using the indicator amino acid oxidation method
• Aria Hai Ying Huang - Nutritional and organoleptic characteristics of Quebec-grown quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) compared to Bolivian variety
• Amy Posel - Vitamin B12 composition of human milk from mothers delivering very preterm and the association with maternal diet
• Leila Tavakoli -  Food processing has a greater effect than protein level or food source on early kidney disease progression in a mouse model
• Ren Wang- Dietary docosahexaenoic acid supplementation during the weaning period effectively reduces systemic inflammation and enhances the production of anti-inflammatory molecules by adipose tissue in Wistar offspring with diet-induced obesity

1:00pm 

• Rita Al Kazzi-  Eating behaviours and their association with self-rated mental health among Canadian youth
• Atheer Attar - Ultra-processed food intake may accentuate polygenic risk of obesity: a gene-diet interaction study from the CARTaGENE cohort
• Sabrina Ayoub-Charette - Low- and no-calorie sweeteners and cardiometabolic outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies
• Dipika Desai - Ultra processed foods consumption among adult South Asian, Chinese and European origin Canadian born and immigrants living in Ontario
• Katherine Eckert- Evaluating young adult consumers' understanding of sustainable diets – A qualitative comparison across five high- and middle-income countries
• Hannah Yang Han - Genome-wide gene-by-environment interaction study identifies variants moderating body mass index through different dietary components
• Valérie Levacher - Ultra-processed food consumption: An exploration of social determinants among Black children of African and Caribbean descent in Ottawa
• Caroline Middleton- Modelling compliant menus for Canadian long-term care using nutrient and food-based standards
• Laurence Pelletier - Development of a sports nutrition score to evaluate adherence of student-athletes to sports nutrition recommendations – phase 1
• Tahmina Rahman - Lifestyle approaches to type 2 diabetes remission: A mixed methods study of lived experiences