Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker
Karine Clément
Sorbonne Université, France
Keynote Speaker
Gianni Panagiotou
FSU & HKI, Germany
Niranjan Nagarajan
Niranjan Nagarajan
NUS & A*STAR, Singapore
(Online mode)

Invited Speakers

Eran Blacher
Eran Blacher
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Reena Debray
Reena Debray
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Daniel Erny
Daniel Erny
University Clinic Freiburg, Germany
Christoph Kaleta
Christoph Kaleta
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
Yvonne Nolan
Yvonne Nolan
University College Cork, Ireland
Veronica Witte
Veronica Witte
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
Bahtiyar Yilmaz
Bahtiyar Yilmaz
University of Bern, Switzerland

Program

Day 1 – October 28

Time
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
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