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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

• 07:00 08:00

  BREAKFAST SESSION ON DOHAD AND CANCER

  Proudly sponsored by the Terry Fox Foundation

  Chair: Somdat Mahabir

  Speakers:

  • Perinatal Immune Development and Infection and Childhood Leukemia, Joseph Leo Wiemels 
  • A New Era for Epigenetic Epidemiology in DOHaD, Robert A. Waterland
• 08:00 09:00

  Keynote Lectures

  Co-chairs: Stephen Matthews and Mary Wlodek

  Keynotes:

  • AI and the Future of Maternal and Infant Health Monitoring Using Advanced Video Technology, Kang Lee (Proudly sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute)
  • Stress and Neurodevelopment, Tracey Bale (Proudly sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute)
• 09:00 10:00

  Presidential Plenary x4

  Co-chairs: Steve Matthews and Mary Wlodek

  • Pilot Evaluation of An Online Family Engagement in Research Course For Parents And Researchers In The Field Of Neurodevelopmental Disability, Alice Kelen Soper

  • Exposure To Childhood Adversities and Cardiovascular Diseases: Mediation By Health Behaviors And Mental Distress, and Moderation By Race/Ethnicity and Income, Jalal Uddin

  • Vitamin B12 And Folate Status And Its Association With Maternal Weight And Newborn Nutritional Status, Isabel González-Ludlow

  • Mono-Ethylhexyl Phthalate Induces Overall and Sex-Specific Transcriptomic Changes In Placental Cells, Samantha Lapehn

• 10:00 12:00

  Posters & Coffee

• 12:00 13:00

  Keynote Lecture

  Chair: John O'Neil

  • Early Childhood Care and Education of Indigenous Children, Margo Greenwood OC PhD

• 12:00 13:00

  Lunch on Own

• 13:00 14:30

  Evolutionary and Anthropological Perspectives on Maternal Pregnancy Supplementation

  Proudly sponsored by Kids Brain Health Network

  Co-chairs: Paola Casanello and María Fernanda Mujica

  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Maternal Nutritional Buffering During Pregnancy: Insights from Studies of Famine and Pregnancy Macronutrient Supplementation, Christopher Kuzawa
  • Gestating Parents as Endpoints of Nutritional Intervention: an Evolutionary Approach to Energy Allocation in Pregnancy, Meredith Reiches
  • Trial Participation for DOHaD Research: Social and Ethical Implications, Michelle Pentecost
• 13:00 14:30

  Human Milk and DOHaD: Fundamental Dynamics to Applied Interventions

  Proudly sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Co-chairs: Meghan Azad and Katie Hinde

  • Breast Versus Bottle-Feeding Human Milk: Identifying Early Responsive Feeding Behaviours to Shape Long-Term Feeding Patterns, Kyly Whitfield
  • RCT of a Relaxation Intervention for Breastfeeding Mothers – Impact on Milk Synthesis/Production, Composition, Breastfeeding Success and Infant Outcomes, Nurul Husna Mohd Shukri
  • More Milk for Daughters? Sex-Differentiated Breastfeeding in Two Human Birth Cohorts and Sex-Differentiated Milk Synthesis in Rhesus Macaques, Meghan Azad and Katie Hinde
• 13:00 14:30

  Preconception and Periconception Exposures: Stress, Alcohol and Vitamins

  Proudly supported by CanFASD & Health Nexus

  Co-chairs: Shu-Li Wang and Meaghan Jones

  • Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Stress, Nastassja Koen
  • Folate Pathway Abnormalities and Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Inter- and Trans-Genererational Birth Defects, Erica Watson
  • Periconceptional Binge Alcohol and Birth Defects, Serge McGraw
• 13:00 14:30

  Environmental Crisis and Development

  Prouldy sponsored by Fonds de recherche du Québec & Burroughs Wellcome Fund

  Co-chairs: Tessa Roseboom and Mia McLean

  • Prenatal Maternal Stress on Child Development, Suzanne King
  • Maternal Depression and Superstorm Sandy, Yoko Nomura
  • Conceptual Model of Prenatal Maternal Stress (Hurricane, Earthquake, Childhood Trauma, COVID), Emily Harville
• 13:00 14:30

  Domestic Animal DOHaD and Epigenetics

  Proudly sponsored by Fonds de recherche du Québec

  Co-chairs: Janice Bailey and Simin Lafontaine

  • How the Controlled Environment in Domestic Animal Industry Could Document the Epigenetic Inheritance in Complement to Genetic Information, Marc-Andre Sirard
  • How the Animal Models Have Answered Mechanistic Questions Related to the Intergenerational Inheritance, Sarah Kimmins
  • Integrating Animal Research in the DOHaD Paradigm, the World is Awakening, Pascale Chavatte-Palmer
• 13:00 14:30

  Applications of artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes across the lifespan

  Proudly sponsored by Kids Brain Health Network

  Co-chairs: James Reynolds and Pablo Toledo

  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Sound Sensitivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Elina Birmingham and Siamak Arzanpour
  • Development and Implementation of Lifestyle Care Using a Life Course Approach, Regine Steegers-Theuissen
  • Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Knowledge Mobilization for Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and their Families, Francois Bolduc
• 14:30 15:00

  Coffee/Tea Service

• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: Neurodevelopment, Disabilities and Mental Health

  Co-chairs: Catherine Draper and Timothy Regnault

  • Childhood And Life Course Socioeconomic Position And Cognitive Function In Adult Population Of The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study Of Latino (HCHS/SOL), Paola Filigrana
  • Increased Developmental Delay Among Pandemic-Born Infants, Gerry Giesbrecht
  • Mental Health Challenges During Covid-19 For Parents And Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genevieve Currie
  • Maternal Dietary Quality, Inflammatory Potential During Pregnancy And Child Neurodevelopment: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Of Five European Cohorts, Kinga Polanska 
  • Can Neonatal Tractography Of The Brain Reward And Limbic System Help Explain A Predisposition To Neurodevelopmental And Metabolic Outcomes In Offspring Exposed To Antenatal Maternal Obesity? Julie Sigurdardottir
  • Maternal Vitamin B12, Folate During Pregnancy And Brain Structural Connectivity In Young Adult Offspring Of The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study, Rishikesh Behere
• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: DOHaD Mechanisms: Microbiome, Immune and Endocrine

  Co-chairs: Anita Kozyrskyj and Tatiane Ribeiro

  • Maternal Glyphosate Exposure Induces Alterations in Behaviour, Gut Microbiota And Gene Expression, Lisa Buchenauer
  • Early Life Factors Influencing Child Gut Microbiota At 3.5 Years From Two French Birth Cohorts: A DOHaD Perspective, Gaël Toubon 
  • Maternal Antibiotic and Prebiotic Administration Alter Offspring Gut Microbiota and Obesity Risk, Dana Lowry
  • Early Life Infection Is Associated with Proinflammatory And Atherogenic Metabolomic And Lipidomic Profiles In Infancy, Toby Mansell
  • Maternal Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain In Association With Child Behavior: The Role Of Inflammation, Elnaz Vaghef Mehrabany 
  • Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Disrupts Pancreatic Development: a Role of Extracellular Vesicles, Thea Golden
• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: DOHaD, Knowledge Translation and Education

  Co-chairs: Jacqueline Peo and Sushma Raghoenath-Munshi

  • Translating Knowledge To Practice: Implementation Of The Family Check-Up® In Autism Service Settings, Terry Bennett
  • Qualitative Evaluation Of A Community Engagement Tool (Chat) For Nutrition In Sub-Saharan Africa, Daniella Watson
  • Weaving Trust And Relationships Into Kidsaction Implementation Research With Indigenous Partners, Stephanie Glegg
  • Using Compass to Navigate the Support And Interventions Journey For FASD, Vannesa Joly
  • Developing Adolescent - Specific Pandemic Resources with Community Consultation, Shania Bhopa
  • Dietary Beliefs and Practices During Pregnancy And Lactation In Rural India: A Qualitative Study, Shama V. Joseph
• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: Moderators / Modifiers and Multigenerational Outcomes

  Co-chairs: Torsten Plosch and Roberto Villalobos

  • Social Needs of South African Mothers And Pregnant Women Around Nutrition In A Low-Income Urban Area, Agnes Erzse
  • Protective Factors That Mitigate Maternal Depression During Early Critical Periods In New Zealand, Charlotte Farewell
  • Maternal Diet Quality, Night-Eating, Fasting Duration and Offspring Metabolic Health at Age 6 Years: The Gusto Study, Ling-Weir Chen
  • Pregnancy Diets in Women with Historical Fall-Winter Seasonla Affective Disorder Support an Evolutionary Model: Implications for Fetal Neurodevelopment, Robert Levitan
  • Intergenerational Transmission of Stress: Multi-Domain Stressors From Maternal Childhood And Pregnancy Predict Children’s Mental Health In A Racially And Socioeconomically Diverse, Multi-Site Cohort, Nicole Bush
  • Synthetic Glucocorticoids Modify Micrornas In Sperm And Extracellular Vesicles In The Epididymis: Implications For Intergenerational Transmission And Fertility, Christoppher Casciaro
• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: Early Growth Outcomes

  Co-chairs: Samantha Lee and Paul Taylor

  • Paternal BMI In the Preconception Period And Association With Child ZBMI Growth Rates, Arin Deveci
  • Effects Of Assisted Reproductive Technology On Offspring Growth, Adiposity, And Cardio-Metabolic Outcomes: Findings From Up To 158,000 Births In The Art-Health Cohort Collaboration, Ahmed Elhakeem
  • Long-Term Disease Occurrence, Growth And Development In Offspring Of Parents With Autoimmune Disease, Hyeong Sik Ahn
  • Third Trimester Fetal Thoracic Size And Growth And Infant Lung Function. A Prospective Cohort Study, Katarina Hilde
  • Postnatal Serum Total Thyroxine Level Associated With The Short-Term And Long-Term Anthropometric Outcomes In Very Preterm Infants, Yen Ju Chen
  • Maternal Serum Ferritin Concentrations During The Second And Third Trimesters Of Pregnancy Are Associated With Birth Outcomes And Early Infant Iron Status, Jenna Evanchuk
• 15:00 16:30

  Open Oral: DOHaD Mechanisms: Placenta and Nutrition Delivery

  Co-chairs: Mary Wlodek and Samantha Lapehn

  • Placental Extracellular Vesicles Promote Cardiomyocyte Growth And Fetal Heart Development, Maiyan Jeyarajah 
  • Placental Endocrine Malfunction Programmes Sex-Specific Adipose Dysfunction in Offspring, Amanda Rodgers 
  • Sex-Specific Effect of Maternal ZIKV Infection On Placental Nutrient Transporters Expression In Mice, Daniela Pereira Carvalho
  • A Maternal High Fat Diet In The Rat Increases Apoptotic and Proliferation Proteins In The Testis Of Adult Offspring, Graciela Pedrana
  • First Trimester Placenta-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Micrornas May Impact Infant Adiposity, Laura Reck Cechinel
  • Perinatal Iron Deficiency Causes Sex-Dependent Changes in Renal Retinoic Acid Pathways In Offspring, Alyssa Wiedemeyer
• 16:30 18:00

  Closing Ceremony

  Presentation of Trainee Awards: Stephen Matthews, James Reynolds, Nicky Lewis

  Concluding Comments: Lucilla Poston, John Challis and Janice Bailey