Keynote Speakers

Karine Clément
Sorbonne Université, France

Gianni Panagiotou
FSU & HKI, Germany

Niranjan Nagarajan
NUS & A*STAR, Singapore
(Online mode)
Invited Speakers

Eran Blacher
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Reena Debray
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Daniel Erny
University Clinic Freiburg, Germany

Christoph Kaleta
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany

Yvonne Nolan
University College Cork, Ireland

Veronica Witte
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

Bahtiyar Yilmaz
University of Bern, Switzerland
Program
Day 1 – October 28
Time | ||
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08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | |
09:00 – 09:10 | Opening (Organizers) | Welcome and opening remarks |
09:10 – 10:10 | Niranjan Nagarajan (NUS & A*STAR, Singapore, online) | tba |
10:10 – 10:40 | Coffee Break | |
10:40 – 11:20 | Christoph Kaleta (CAU Kiel, Germany) | Metabolic modeling-driven elucidation of microbial drivers of host aging |
11:20 – 12:00 | Reena Debray (MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) | Aging, social isolation, and microbiome transmission in a wild primate |
12:00 – 12:20 | Selected Talk | |
12:20 – 12:30 | Sponsor Talk | |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch & Posters (Session 1) | |
14:00 – 15:00 | Karine Clément (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) | Microbiome, nutrition and cardiometabolic diseases (lessons from the EU Project MetaCardis) |
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break & Meet-the-Expert (Karine Clément) | |
15:30 – 15:50 | Selected Talk | |
15:50 – 16:10 | Selected Talk | |
16:10 – 16:50 | Yvonne Nolan (University College Cork, Ireland) | The role of gut microbiota in Alzheimer’s disease: Lessons from faecal microbiota transplantation studies |
16:50 – 17:30 | Veronica Witte (MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) | tba |
17:40 – 17:50 | Sponsor Slot | |
18:30 – 23:00 | Conference Dinner & Networking |
Day 2 – October 29
Time | ||
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09:00 – 09:10 | Opening (Organizers) | Opening of the second day |
09:10 – 09:50 | Bahtiyar Yilmaz (University of Bern, Switzerland) | Cradled by commensals, provoked by inflammation: the dual life of anti-Gal antibodies |
09:50 – 10:10 | Selected Talk | |
10:10 – 10:30 | Selected Talk | |
10:30 – 10:50 | Selected Talk | |
10:50 – 11:00 | Sponsor Slot | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
11:30 – 12:30 | Panel Discussion | |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch & Posters (Session 2) | |
14:00 – 15:00 | Gianni Panagiotou (FSU & HKI Jena, Germany) | tba |
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break & Meet-the-Expert (Gianni Panagiotou) | |
15:30 – 16:10 | Eran Blacher (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) | tba |
16:10 – 16:30 | Selected Talk | |
16:30 – 17:10 | Daniel Erny (University Clinic Freiburg, Germany) | How gut bacteria modulate brain-resident immune cells |
17:10 – 17:30 | Selected Talk | |
17:30 – 18:00 | Closing | Announcement of prizes, closing remarks |