Malnutrition affects ~3 billion people worldwide, making it a major public health threat. Understanding how diet affects health is, however, challenging. Diets are complex mixtures of nutrients that interact with genetics and lifestyle to affect physiology and health. The development of precision nutrition methods that let us tease apart how genes, environments and nutrients affect the health of model organisms has helped us begin unravelling the complex effects of diet. However, these efforts have been isolated in individual disciplinary silos, hindering future breakthroughs and slowing the spread of existing innovations.
This SIG will address this by acting as a think-tank for interdisciplinary research on nutrition. The SIG will connect mathematicians and statisticians within biomedical, ecological and nutritional scientists to foster an environment where new methodological approaches to nutrition can be developed, honed, and applied. This aligns with Priority 1 of the Nutrition Society strategic plan to promote high-quality evidence-based research and keep the Society at the cutting-edge of nutritional sciences.
The SIG will host monthly meetings, open to researchers across disciplines and career stages (including members and non-members of the Society) to discuss current challenges, topics and approaches to nutritional sciences. Thus, the SIG will foster communication in a collegial and supportive environment. It will also attract new members with complementary expertise for synergistic work and insights. Thus, the SIG promote the development of new ideas in nutritional sciences through collaborations between experts across all career stages, which directly address Priority 2 and 3 of the Society’s strategic plan to support member career development and strengthen the Society’s visibility and contributions to nutritional sciences globally.
Aims and Objectives
- Submission of a joint EU COST Action proposal,
- Co-edit a special issue in prestigious peer-review journals,
- Monitor career development of ECR members
Chair
Dr Juliano Morimoto, Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.