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2022-program

For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)

Monday, May 16, 2022
Virtual Meeting via Zoom and all times below are EDT

8:30 – 8:45Welcome & Introduction
8:45 – 9:00Albert Hofman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Opening Remarks
9:00 – 10:00Eric Pamer, University of Chicago
“Investigating and managing infectious diseases in the microbiome era”
10:00 – 10:30Lora Hooper, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Bacterial regulation of vitamin A transport”
10:30 – 10:45Aayushi UberoiUniversity of Pennsylvania
“Commensal microbes can regulate skin barrier through the control of Tryptophan-Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor cascade”
10:45 – 11:00Varun Aggarwala, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Stable and specific engraftment of donor strains post fecal microbiota transplant explains remission in patients with Ulcerative Colitis”
11:00 – 11:15Break
11:15 – 11:45Lawrence David, Duke University
“DNA metabarcoding for diet tracking”
11:45 – 12:15Scott Handley, Washington University
“Computational Approaches for Virome Analysis in Health and Disease”
12:15 – 1:30Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:00Long Nguyen, Massachusetts General Hospital
“Metagenomic assessment of gut microbial communities and risk of severe COVID-19”
2:00 – 2:15Karthikeyani Chellappa, University of Pennsylvania
“Host-derived nicotinamide in circulation feed gut microbiome“
2:15 – 2:30Raaj MehtaMassachusetts General Hospital
“Gut Microbial Metabolism of 5-ASA Diminishes Its Clinical Efficacy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”
2:30 – 2:45Break
2:45 – 3:15Suzanne Devkota, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
“Visceral fat expansion in complex disease and the microbial cues that drive it”
3:15 – 4:15Justin Sonnenberg, Stanford University
“Gut microbiome industrialization and the rise of chronic inflammatory disease”
4:15 – 4:30Closing Remarks
Poster Reception available online all day