Session 3 - Infant Gut Microbiota and Health (15:40-17:50 hr)
Session Chair:
Prof Dr Hamid Jan Bin Jan Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Prof Dr Hamid Jan Bin Jan Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof Dr Hamid Jan Bin Jan Mohamed is Professor at Nutrition Programme, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Prof Hamid initiated the first birth cohort in Malaysia named the USM Pregnancy Cohort Study which started in 2009. This cohort was aimed at investigating the role of maternal nutrition, oxidative stress and adipokines in the development of obesity and diabetes. The findings of this study are published in several local and international journals. Currently, Prof Hamid is working on several intervention projects related to the prevention of stunting in children. He also works closely with the Ministry of Health Malaysia as a committee member of the Technical Working Group for Nutrition Guidelines (Children/Adults/Elderly) and other consultative activities. He is currently Chairman of Technical Working Group (Nutrition Research) for the Ministry of Health Malaysia, and a Science Advisor of ILSI SEA Region. He was recently appointed as Committee Member of the International Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Society. Prof Hamid completed his PhD (Nutrition) at King’s College London, UK. He holds a Master's Degree in Nutrition from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition and Community Health from Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received extensive training in laboratory skills from the Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology Course at USM.
Dr Qi Yan Ang is a Senior Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Her current research aims to explore the role of the gut microbiome in child and maternal health through longitudinal studies of birth cohorts in Singapore. Dr Ang received her B.A. in Pre-clinical Medicine from the University of Cambridge, and completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Her doctoral research focused on diet-immune interactions mediated by the gut microbiome, particularly examining how a ketogenic diet can alter the gut microbiome with downstream effects on proinflammatory cells. In her postdoctoral work at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dr Ang studied the development of the infant gut microbiome and helped identify a novel group of bacteria which thrives during the period of weaning. Featured on the cover of the journal Cell, this work deepened our understanding of how the microbiome evolves from infancy through early childhood.