Flash Poster Presentations

Friday, May 8, 2026

8:15 am, Room C3

Moderator: Helen Wong, PhD (Dalhousie University)

• Serena Iannucci - Effect of almond incorporation in white chocolate and nut particle size on satiation, chewing effort, and eating time in healthy adult females
• Breanne Semenko - Positioning a First Nation-led smart vertical farm as a community health resource through functional vegetable development
• Madison L. Fennell - Significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression observed in genetic carriers of phenylketonuria (PKU) compared to non-carriers
• Karim Karbin - Associations of dairy intake, diet quality, and bone mineralization in Canadian children aged 5-11: the role of dietary assessment method
• Etornam Tsyawo - A multi-physics computational framework for predicting nutrient retention during cooking: validation with β-carotene retention in boiled carrots
• Ayush Berry - Vitamin B6 Deficiency Induces Metabolic Perturbations and Aggravates Inflammation and Oxidative Damage in a Murine Model of MASLD
• Shanella Senadhiraja - Prenatal alcohol exposure disrupts maternal hepatic lipid metabolism
• Marisa Desmarais - Benefits of traditional meat harvesting among Indigenous youth
• Manon Fantino - Comparing the impact of healthy, unhealthy and non-food social media content on visual attention: an eye-tracking study

Friday, May 8, 2026

4:30 pm, Room C3

Moderator: Raphaëlle Jacob, RD, PhD (University of Guelph)

• Catherine Bigras- Associations between dietary patterns and cognitive performance in an aging population
• Gabrielle Viscardi - Implementing a guideline-based dietary pattern for cardiometabolic health: A co-design and quality assurance evaluation of the digital Portfolio Diet Program in ethnically diverse communities
• Adar B. Buxton - Absorption regulation of dietary guanidinoacetic acid: high creatine in circulation enhances basolateral transport of guanidinoacetic acid in a Caco-2 model
• Audrey Moyen - Multimodal intervention targeting muscle during surgical prehabilitation of patients with non-small cell lung cancer
• Monika Nguyen - Post-exercise nutrition differentially modulates glycemic, insulin, and insulin sensitivity responses in healthy young adults
• Megan Macasaet - Anchor-based minimally clinically important differences in six-minute walk test for thoracic surgery patients undergoing prehabilitation with or without malnutrition
• Jocelyne M. Labonté - Riboflavin, vitamin A, and iron biomarkers: evidence of association from a national micronutrient survey in Madagascar
• Lauryn Flannagan- High adiposity is observed primarily when ultra-processed food intake and dietary hyper-palatability co-occur: Findings from NHANES 2013-2018
• Dareen Hassan - Levels of trust in sources of nutrition information among Canadian adults: Results from the Canadian Nutrition and Health Survey
• Virginie Desgreniers - Is food guide use associated with healthier food choices? National survey insights among Canadian adolescents

Saturday, May 9, 2026

8:15 am, Room C3

Moderator: Flavio T. Vieira, PhD (University of Alberta)

• Natalia Alaniz-Salinas - Impact of a universal school lunch program in Canada on lunch energy, nutrient intake, and nutrient density: a Difference-in-Differences study
• Yumnah Jafri - Assessing a community gardening intervention to lower type 2 diabetes risk
• Yanick Brunette - Socioeconomic inequities during pregnancy: when mental health meets nutrition
• Salma Bafagih - Patterns and predictors of food literacy among Canadian adults: a cross-sectional study
• Bhavana Soma - Dietary patterns and age at natural menopause: evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
• Angelina Baric - Ultra-processed food intake and female fertility: an NHANES-based study
• Katrina Geronimo - The longitudinal associations of dairy consumption with adipose tissue distribution and function in the Prospective Metabolism and Islet Cell Evaluation (PROMISE) cohort
• Sidra Aftab Uzair - Vitamin D status and its associations with parathyroid hormone and total body bone mineral content in young Canadian adults
• Fazle Rabbi - Concurrent criterion validity of short food frequency questionnaire among South Asian pregnant women living in Canada
• Sarah Jarvis - Evaluating the environmental impacts of therapeutic and recommended diets for cardiometabolic health: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of diets in Canada