2020 – Program Page
2020 – Program Page
For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
Friday, May 8, 2020
Virtual Meeting via Zoom
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Dyann Wirth, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Rick Blumberg, Harvard Medical School “Defining mechanisms employed by the host in managing the microbial interface” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Emily Balskus, Harvard University “Deciphering the human microbiome with chemistry” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Lior Lobel, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Diet post-translationally modifies the gut microbial proteome to modulate renal function” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Jennifer Lee, Harvard Medical School “The Anti-Diabetic Effects of Palmitic Acid Hydroxy Stearic Acid (PAHSA) Lipids are Transmissible by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) in Mice” |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Sloan Devlin, Harvard Medical School “Gut Bacterial Modification of Bile Acids Alters Host Physiology” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Georg Gerber, Brigham and Women’s Hospital “The dynamic microbiome and its changing metabolic capability” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Kyu Ha Lee, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “New Statistical Methods for Joint Endpoint Analysis of Microbiome Data” |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Yue (Sandra) Yin, Rutgers University “Antibiotic-induced perturbations of the gut microbiota alter ileal microRNA expression profiles in non-obese diabetic mice,” |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Jessica Lang, Cherry Li, Jeremy Wilkinson, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “The BIOM-Mass platform for population-scale microbiome research at the HCMPH” |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Rachel Carmody, Harvard University “Energetic buffering by the gut microbiome” |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Gary Wu, University of Pennsylvania “The microbiome and the chemical environment of the human gut” |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks |