Nutrigenomics for Lifelong Health

2-4 September 2026 Olsztyn, Poland

Precision Nutrition / Biochemistry of Aging / Disease Prevention / Immunocompetence

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Nutrigenomics for Lifelong Health is the central theme of the WELCOME2 conference, bringing together leading scientists to explore how nutrition interacts with molecular pathways to shape health across the entire lifespan. The conference highlights nutrigenomics as a key link between biochemistry, medicine, and long-term disease prevention, offering new insights into how personalized nutrition can support healthy aging.

The program is structured around four interconnected sessions, covering precision nutrition and digital twins, the biochemistry of aging, nutrigenomics in disease prevention, and immunocompetence in later life. From advanced computational models and metabolic profiling, through molecular mechanisms of aging, to immune resilience, the sessions create a coherent scientific journey from theory to real-world health applications.

WELCOME2 offers a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research, exchange perspectives with experts from different disciplines, and build connections around one of the most dynamic areas of modern life sciences—making it an essential meeting point for researchers, clinicians, and professionals working at the intersection of nutrition, genomics, and health.

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Keynote Speakers

We are proud to bring inspirational speakers from across the globe

Dr. Elisa Dominguez-Hüttinger

Mexico City, Mexico

Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger is a Research Associate in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Institute for Biomedical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD in Bioengineering in 2015 from Imperial College London, specialising in Systems Biology. Her work focuses on theoretical and computational modelling of complex disease processes, with particular emphasis on identifying pathogenic mechanisms and early markers of gradual disease transitions. She develops mechanistic, quantitative mathematical models that integrate clinical and experimental data, enabling the analysis of disease dynamics across multiple timescales and supporting the design and optimisation of therapeutic strategies. Her integrative systems biology approach has been successfully applied to the study of atopic dermatitis, tuberculosis, upper airway infections, and epithelial carcinomas.

Prof. Susan Coort

Maastricht, NL

Susan Coort Associate Professor Susan Steinbusch-Coort is an expert in nutrigenomics and precision nutrition, with a strong interdisciplinary background spanning molecular biology, omics data analysis, pathway-based analysis, and network biology. Her research aims to elucidate how (micro)nutrients influence molecular pathways and biological networks underlying metabolic health and disease, using systems-level and data-driven approaches.
Susan is part of the Department of Translational Genomics at Maastricht University, where she contributes to the Nutrigenomics research theme and she leads Research Area 1 within NUTRIM on Metabolic Health. In addition, she is Executive Secretary of NuGO, an international association promoting collaborative research in molecular nutrition, personalized and precision nutrition, nutrigenomics, and nutritional systems biology.

Lars-Oliver Klotz

Jena, DE

Lars-Oliver Klotz (LOK) is Professor of Nutrigenomics and current Director of the Institute of Nutritional Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He obtained his Diploma degree (an MSc equivalent) in biochemistry from the University of Tübingen, Germany, followed by a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Following postdoctoral research at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, MD, USA, he obtained his lecturer’s qualification (Habilitation degree) at the University of Düsseldorf. In 2010, he moved to the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, where he was an Associate Professor (tenured) and held the Canada Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 2013, Dr. Klotz assumed his current position. Dr. Klotz is the 2006 recipient of SFRR-Europe’s Catherine-Pasquier-Award. His research interests include the biochemistry of oxidative stress, stress-induced signal transduction and molecular processes in aging.

Moray J Campbell, PhD

Detroit, US

Moray J. Campbell earned his PhD from the University of Kent (1994) and completed postdoctoral training in cancer research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. He has held faculty positions in the UK and the United States and is now a Professor at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. His research examines how nuclear receptor signaling interfaces with the epigenome in cancer systems. After completing a Master’s in Bioinformatics (2016), he built a program that integrates deep phenotypic understanding of hormone-dependent cancers with rigorous analysis of high-dimensional datasets.

Eunike Velleuer

Düsseldorf, DE

Eunike Velleuer, MD, is a physician-scientist at the Institute Pathology, University of Düsseldorf and a senior physician at the Children’s Oncology Department, Helios Clinic Krefeld, Health and Medical University Campus Düsseldorf/Krefeld. Her research focuses on the cancer predisposition syndrome Fanconi anemia as a model of accelerated aging, impaired genome maintenance and declining immunocompetence. Her work investigates age-associated alterations of the immune microenvironment, including immune surveillance failure and functional immune exhaustion during premalignant and malignant progression. By integrating immunophenotyping, spatial and cytological based single-cell analyses in longitudinal screening cohorts, she aims to elucidate how defective DNA repair, chronic stress responses, and immune aging converge to drive cancer risk and reduced health span in genetically predisposed individuals.