Food-Microbiome Interaction: Implications for Health & Disease
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - Thursday, May 12, 2016
The Royal Society, London
The human body is colonized by a vast number of commensal organisms, collectively termed the microbiome. Importantly, dysbiosis — dyregulation of this endemic microbiome — has been implicated in a myriad of human diseases ranging from inflammatory bowel disease, to depression.
To discuss recent trends and emerging findings in microbiome science, the New York Academy of Science is pleased to be partnering with a new, international center for food and health research being established in the UK to present "Food-Microbiome Interaction: Implications for Health and Disease". The conference will cover the link between food, the microbiome, and healthy living (session 1), the establishment of the microbiome throughout development and host-microbe mutualism (session 2), the influence of the microbiome on physiology beyond the gut (session 3), and finally the therapeutic potential of targeting the microbiome. Bringing together experts at the field's forefront, "Food-Microbiome Interaction: Implications for Health and Disease" will present an up to date view of our understanding of the regulation of human health by the microbiome.
Agenda
* Presentation times are subject to change.
DAY 1: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016 | |
6:00 PM | Registration |
6:15 PM | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
6:30 PM | Keynote: The Gut Microbiota and Childhood Undernutrition: Looking at Human Development From a Microbial Perspective |
7:15 PM | Networking Reception |
8:15 PM | Day 1 Adjourns |
DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016 | |
8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
9:15 AM | Keynote Address |
Session I — Microbiome: Linking Foods to Human Health | |
9:40 AM | Development of the Gut Microbial Community in Response to Diet |
10:05 AM | Mechanistic Insights into Gut Bacteria-Mucus Interactions |
10:30 AM | Networking Coffee Break |
11:00 AM | Learning How Diet Can Reshape the Human Gut Microbiome |
11:25 AM | The Inflammation-Associated Microbiome of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases |
11:50 AM | Data Blitz Presentations |
12:00 PM | Networking Lunch Break and Poster Session |
Session II — The Microbiome in Development: Establishing Host-Microbe Mutualism | |
1:40 PM | Mom’s Microbes: Changes to the Microbiome During Gestation |
2:05 PM | The Early Microbiome |
2:30 PM | Networking Coffee Break |
3:00 PM | Populating Preterms with Probiotics |
3:25 PM | Culturing of 'Unculturable' Human Intestinal Bacteria Reveals Novel Taxa and Mechanisms of Host Transmission |
3:50 PM | Keynote Address: Opportunities for Commercialization |
4:30 PM | Panel Discussion |
5:30 PM | Day 2 Adjourns |
DAY 3: THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016 | |
8:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
9:05 AM | Keynote Address: Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis: How do Bacteria Communicate Functional Changes? |
Session III — Microbiome Influence Beyond the Gut | |
9:45 AM | Commensal Gut Bacteria Generated Extracellular Vesicles Mediate Cross-Kingdom Dialog |
10:10 AM | Entroendocrine Cells and Nutrient Sensing |
10:35 AM | Prebiotics, the Human Gut Microbiome and Lactose Intolerance |
11:00 AM | Networking Coffee Break |
11:25 AM | Mechanisms of CD1d-Dependent Mucosal Inflammation in Intestines |
11:50 AM | The Role of the Microbiota in Asthma |
12:25 PM | Networking Lunch Break |
Session IV — Targeting the Microbiome: Replacement Therapy and Synthetic Genomics | |
1:25 PM | Mining the Human Microbiome for Bioactive Small Molecules |
1:50 PM | Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) — Expanding Applications |
2:15 PM | Microbiota in IBD and its Modification as a Therapy |
2:40 PM | Networking Coffee Break |
3:05 PM | The Process and Consequences of Bacteria-Phage Coevolution within the Microbiome |
3:30 PM | Short Chain Fatty Acid Production by Intestinal Microbiota: Models and Reality |
4:00 PM | The Gut Microbiota as a Therapeutic Target in Obesity and Insulin ResistanceGuido Joost Bakker, MD, Academic Medical Center |
4:45 PM | Closing Remarks |
5:00 PM | Conference Concludes |
Keynote Speakers
John Bienenstock, CM, FRCPC, FRSC
McMaster University
Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Washington University in St. Louis (via Skype)
Speakers
M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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Guido Joost Bakker, MD
Academic Medical Centre
Laurence Ashley Blackshaw, PhD
Queen Mary University of London
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Richard Blumberg, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Thomas Borody, MD, PhD, FRACP
Center for Digestive Diseases
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Jan Claesen, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Simon Carding, PhD
Institute of Food Research / University of East Anglia
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Ian Charles, PhD
Quadram Institute
Marcus Claesson, MSc, PhD
University College Cork
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Lawrence David, PhD
Duke University
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Sonya Dougal, PhD
The New York Academy of Sciences
Jean-Michel Faurie, PhD
Nutricia DANONE Research
B. Brett Finlay, PhD
University of British Columbia
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Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD
New York University
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Lindsay Hall, PhD
Institute of Food Research
Ailsa Hart, MRCP, PhD
Imperial College
Nathalie Juge, PhD
Institute of Food Research
Trevor David Lawley, PhD
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Denise Kelly, PhD
Seventure Partners
Omry Koren, PhD
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Britt Koskella, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
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Karen Scott, PhD
Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health
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