The aim of this meeting is to discuss new findings on the microbial communities that reside in our gut and to provide a better understanding of how these microbes affect health and disease. To explore this avenue further, we are organizing a one-day symposium on May 30th 2011 featuring young scientists at the very forefront of the field. The symposium will cover areas such as microbial communities (ecology, metabolism) and mucosal immunology and will be of interest to researchers from academia, clinics and industry.
MONDAY, May 30th, 2011
Opening address: Andrew Macpherson, Department Clinical Research, Inselspital, Bern
09:00-09:15
Microbiota and pathogens
Dr. Federico Rey Gordon Lab, Washington University in St. Louis
Dissecting the in vivo niches of hydrogen-consuming gut microbes using defined communities, next-generation sequencing, and gnotobiotics
09:15-09:45
Dr. Cathy Lozupone Knight Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder
Comparative genomics analysis of co-occurring human gut bacteria reveals genetic factors that differentiate between 'friend' and 'foe' in the Clostridia
