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HMI'27 Program Day 3 - Main Symposium

Thursday, March 11, 2027

 

8:00 AM

Check-in opens
Light breakfast will be served

9:00 AM

Morning session begins

Breast to Brain: Transport Across Maternal-Infant Epithelial Barriers

Location:

Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium

Moderator:

Lars Bode, PhD
Director, Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego

 

9:00 AM

Maternal Mammary Gland
Building a Functional Human Mammary Organoid Platform to Advance Human Milk Research

Margaret H. Rabotnick
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego

 

9:30 AM

Infant Intestine
Human Intestinal Organoids as Models of Enteric Infections and Vaccines

Sasirekha (Sashi) Ramani, PhD
Associate Professor Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

 

10:00 AM

Infant Brain
Transporters in the Human Blood Brain Barrier: Implications to Brain Homeostasis

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm
Dean, School of Pharmacy
Troy C. Daniels Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
UC San Francisco

 

10:30 AM

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
to be selected

This could be you!
Submit your abstract until October 15!

 

10:45 AM

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
to be selected

This could be you!
Submit your abstract until October 15!

 

11:00 AM

Poster Session II
Coffee will be served

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

The White Couch session begins

White Couch: Innovators Shaping the Future of Human Milk and Lactation

Location:

Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium

Moderator:

Lars Bode, PhD
Director, Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego

 

Panelists:

will be announced shortly

 

3:00 PM

Coffee and Meet-Up Hub

3:30 PM

The Art of Breastfeeding session begins

The Art of Breastfeeding

Location:

Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium

Moderator:

TBN
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego

 

Speakers:

will be announced shortly

 

Panelists:

will be announced shortly

 

4:45 PM

Poster Awards and Closing Remarks

5:00 PM

End of Day 3