B Vitamins, Epigenome, and Fetal Programming
Description:
As part of the International Congress of the Obesity Research Institute at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Dr. Rosa María Gueánt-Rodríguez, professor and researcher at the University of Lorraine and physician at the University Hospital of Nancy (France), will deliver the lecture "B Vitamins, Epigenome, and Fetal Programming."
Dr. Gueánt-Rodríguez leads the research group on the Epigenetic Metabolism of One-Carbon Compounds and the Origins of Complex Diseases at the University of Lorraine. Her work focuses on understanding how vitamin deficiencies, especially B vitamins, impact cardiometabolic, brain, and liver health, both in adults and during fetal development.
Fetal programming refers to how the environments a woman is exposed to before and during pregnancy can influence the growth and development of the baby. Globally, many women of reproductive age have vitamin deficiencies, either due to insufficient intake or metabolic alterations related to obesity. These deficiencies can affect not only the health of the mother and baby but also have long-term consequences during childhood and adulthood.
During her presentation, Dr. Gueánt-Rodríguez will share recent findings on how altered levels of B vitamins, in both animal and human models, affect the metabolic development of offspring in contexts of obesity and metabolic syndrome. She will also discuss how these alterations affect the expression of key genes for cellular function, from an integrative perspective of metabolism and epigenetics.
Understanding this information not only allows for a better understanding of the relationship between obesity and vitamin deficiencies but also opens the door to designing public policies focused on prevention and protection of nutritional health throughout all stages of life.
The participation of internationally renowned scientists such as Dr. Gueánt-Rodríguez in the IOR 2025 Congress reflects the event's commitment to cutting-edge science and the promotion of high-level human talent development through global collaboration.