This meeting, which focuses on immunonutrition in health and disease, contains approximately 71 oral abstracts and 1 article in English. Topics include zinc and the immune system, immunometabolic adaptation in pregnancy, fatty acids as triggers and modulators of inflammation, omega-3 fatty acids and resolution of inflammation, vitamin D and respiratory infections, probiotic interaction with host immunity, why obesity is an inflammatory disease, and probiotics and the ageing immune system. Other topics are effects of overtraining and an exhausting exercise on the mucosal immune system in rats, fatty acid status of Sudanese patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, and epidermal growth factor promotes the intestinal barrier maturation of preterm rats.