The 2026 Irish Section Conference will consider 'Innovative approaches for optimising nutrition across the lifecycle’ and the programme will include 3 symposia:
- Nutrition across the lifecycle: Foundations for Lifelong Health
- Translating Nutrition Research into Policy and Practice
- Food systems and sustainability
This meeting is a key annual meeting of the Irish section of the nutrition society and typically attracts 150 delegates including researchers, clinical practitioners, doctoral and postgraduate students from across Ireland and the UK.
Day One
Registration
Welcome
Symposium 1 - Nutrition across the lifecycle: Foundations for Lifelong Health
The importance of vitamin B12 for neuropsychiatric heath and nutrition policy
Speaker to be confirmed
ECR Presentation speaker to be identified could be in area of first 1000 days, childhood and adolescence, menopause, sustaintable diets across the life course
Refreshment Break
Pregnancy, Obesity, and Gestational Diabetes: Current Evidence and Implications for Practice
Dr Alyson Hill, Ulster University
Feeding your epigenetic clock: the link between food and better ageing across the lifecycle
Prof Paul Shields, University of Glasgow
Lunch
Oral Communication Session One
Refreshment Break
Oral Communication Session Two
End of Day One
Evening Social Activity - The event will be ticketed and more details will be available in due course
Day Two
Irish Postgraduate Symposium - More details will be available in due course
Refreshment Break
Julie Wallace Lecture
Oral Communication Session Three
Lunch
Irish Section AGM
Symposium 2 - Translating Nutrition Research into Policy and Practice
The application of artificial intelligence in nutrition and health research
Prof Michaela Black, Ulster University
Use of digital technologies in nutrition and Health promotion
Dr Cathal O’Hara, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Refreshment Break
Assessing nutritional status using novel biomarkers
Dr Adrian McCann, Bevital Norway
Evidence, efficacy and engagement: building blocks of translational research
Dr Karen Callaghan, Kings College London
End of Day Two
Gala Dinner
Day Three
Symposium 3 - Food Systems, Sustainability and Equity in Nutrition
EAT Lancet 2 - Speaker to be confirmed
Presentation - Final details to be confirmed
Refreshment Break
Can biofortification be used as a tool to enhance the food system?
Dr Kirsty Pourshahidi, Ulster University
Presentation - Final details to be confirmed
Closing Remarks
Close of conference
This is an in-person event only.
Conference address:
Coleraine Campus
Ulster University
Cromore Rd
Coleraine BT52 1SA