SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
At present, the human population is consuming approximately “1.7 earth gross domestic products (GDPs)“ per year – it is obvious that this cannot sustain human and planetary life and health. The two major challenges to be met for preserving a healthy human life on a healthy planet are sustainable generation und use of energy and food. In this Symposium we will compile and discuss scientific contributions to addressing the latter challenge of a healthier and more sustainable food system, all enabled by translational systems science.
Humanity in the Anthropocene faces enormous challenges in terms of the global population of 8 billion today and 10 billion predicted for 2080; the human impact on biodiversity and climate change; and the need for a more resilient health care system. Yet, humanity also disposes of unprecedented knowledge, technologies, and tools to meet these challenges: the converging and mutually beneficial revolutions in bio- and information technology; and – despite remaining shortcomings – the increasing international cooperation in science, economics, and politics.
Nutrition stands at the center of both the necessities and opportunities to deliver better human, animal, and planetary health by facilitating sustainable global food and feed supply for populations; personalized and precision nutrition for enhanced individual health; and unlocking the wealth of natural bioactives. Nutrition needs to sustain human life, enhance health, and help prevent disease. Nutrition should furthermore prolong human health span in view of extended life span and improve individual well-being. While doing that, it should sustainably use planetary resources and minimize irreparable impact on environment and climate.
To meet these seemingly overwhelming and possibly conflicting challenges, nutrition science is advancing towards a translational systems science supporting: a more sustainable food system "from farm to fork"; a more efficient yet affordable health care system; and nutritional and dietary strategies tailored to different ethnicities as well as consumer and patient groups. A sustainable food system requires enhanced leverage of the plant kingdom for macronutrients, in particular the typically animal-derived protein, and for micronutrients and other bioactive compounds. Efficient yet affordable health care should include (general, medical and clinical) nutrition and prevention as a complement to pharmaceutical repair and cure. Tailored nutrition requires translational and comparable clinical studies with deeply phenotyped subjects, representative of population groups.
Within the above-described context and scope, we address sustainable nutrition and healthcare as well as translational nutrition studies, for example: aspects of systems biology and data science will be covered that facilitate understanding complex physiological contexts and help consolidate nutrition as a systems science; to better leverage the plant kingdom for nutritious protein, micronutrients and bioactives, we will shed light on omics-, artificial intelligence- and bioinformatics-driven discovery and validation of natural bioactives; working towards a more sustainable health care system, we will discuss how diet can help maintain health and prevent disease, with a special emphasis on nutritionally actionable chronic conditions; and opportunities of revitalizing indigenous knowledge and combine it with modern systems science to foster solutions for today’s food challenges will be exemplified.
SPECIFIC TOPICS
- Humanity in the Anthropocene
- Human Life, Health and Wealth
- How the world is and how we see it
- Major sustainability challenges
- Energy
- From fossils to renewables
- Food
- The Food System must change
- Geographic relevance of science and solutions
- One Health Concept
- Healthy people on a healthy planet
- The Food System
- Agriculture
- Population Growth & The Green Revolution
- Transport
- Processing
- Production
- Retail
- Consumer
- Planetary Health Diet
- EAT-Lancet Commission
- How to nourish 10 b people on earth within planetary boundaries
- Alternative Proteins
- „Bavarian Health Diet“
- Nutrition & Health
- Dimensions of Food & Health
- Survival, enough calories, enough nutrients, health optimisation, disease prevention
- Early-Life Health and Perinatal Nutrition
- Human Longevity
- „Let food be your medicine ?“
- Personalised / Precision Nutrition
- From classical nutrition science to ‚Systems Nutrition‘
- Clinical Studies
- Molecular Phenotyping
- Genetics
- Epigenomics
- Proteomics, Metabolomics
- Economics
- Citizen Science, Society & Culture
- Molecular Nutrition
- Natural Bioactives
- Micronutrients
- Phytonutrients
- Bioactive Peptides
- Biotics
- Food – Diet – Nutrients – Supplements
- Nutrition and Technology
- Bioanalytics
- Mass Spectrometry
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
- Micronutrients
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI in science, technology and society
- Systems Biology
- Computational leverage of knowledge
- Natural language processing
- Computational leverage of nature’s molecular reservoir
- In vivo HTS of bioactives
- Digital Health
- Apps & Wearables for Monitoring
- Health
- Nutrition
- Lifestyle
- Data generation, sharing, protection, leverage
- Personalised Nutrition and Health in action
