Join us on October 9th to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Andrew Merten's talk "Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis of Human Milk, Maternal Nutritional Supplementation, and Child Growth: Results from the IMiC Multi-Site Study" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.
Breastfeeding provides optimal nutrition and immune protection to infants. Human milk contains a plethora of nutritional and non-nutritional compounds that support infant growth and development. Many are highly variable between and within mothers, but little is known about the source and impact of this variation – yet, this information is critical to understanding 1) why some breastfed infants still fail to achieve optimal growth trajectories, and 2) how to optimize nutrition for infants who cannot be breastfed. The International Milk Composition (IMiC) Consortium has collected multi-omics human milk data from a global set of 4 studies, and the presentation will report results from a late-fusion multimodal analysis of milk components and child growth, as well as the effects of maternal nutritional interventions on breastmilk profiles.