Webinar: Diet-Microbiome Connection: Implications for Health and Diseases by Find BC Dietitians Inc.

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The gut microbiome has emerged as one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving areas of nutrition science, with growing evidence linking dietary patterns to digestive health, immune function, metabolic disease, and chronic disease prevention. As research continues to advance, dietitians and health care providers are uniquely positioned to translate this complex science into practical, evidence-based recommendations for clients.

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About This Webinar

Join us for this engaging webinar to explore the latest research on the diet–microbiome connection and its clinical implications. You'll gain a deeper understanding of how nutrition influences the gut microbiome, examine emerging strategies and personalized nutrition, and leave with practical tools you can confidently apply in your everyday practice.

In this webinar, you will learn :

o How specific dietary components shape gut microbiome composition and function
o The mechanisms linking the gut microbiome to health, including short-chain fatty acid
production, immune modulation, and gut barrier integrity
o How gut microbiome dysbiosis contributes to the risk and progression of chronic diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and colorectal cancer
o Emerging dietary strategies, including personalized nutrition, prebiotics, probiotics, and
synbiotics, for modulating the gut microbiome to prevent and manage disease
o Practical guidance for dietitians on translating diet-microbiome research into practice

Presenter

Dr. Genelle Lunken

PhD, RD, BSc

Dr Genelle Lunken is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She also practices as a dietitian and the translational research lead at the IBD Centre of BC. Dr Lunken completed her PhD in Nutritional Science at Massey University in New Zealand, where her research primarily centred on investigating the impact of habitual dietary fibre intake on the response of gut microbiota to a prebiotic intervention.

In 2017, she relocated to Vancouver, Canada, to commence a postdoctoral fellowship under the guidance of Drs Bruce Vallance and Kevan Jacobson at UBC. During her postdoctoral fellowship, her research interests expanded to explore the interplay between fibre, gut microbiota, and inflammation using mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Since establishing her lab in 2023, Dr. Lunken’s research has focused on expanding our knowledge of host-immune-microbe interactions, with a specific focus on identifying host (i.e., diet) and microbial factors involved in differing responses to medical and dietary therapies in IBD patients. By better understanding individualized responses to treatment, we can move towards developing and using personalized therapeutic programs to improve IBD patient outcomes. She leadsmodels of inflammatory bowel disease.

As of 2023, Dr Lunken established her own research laboratory at UBC. Her research focuses on expanding our knowledge of host-immune-microbe interactions, with a specific focus on identifying host (i.e., diet) and microbial factors involved in differing responses to medical and dietary therapies. By better understanding individualized responses to treatments, we can move towards developing and
using personalized therapeutic programs to improve patient outcomes.

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