Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center
“Understanding the microbiome may transform our understanding of how healthy bodies become diseased, how aging leads to infirmity, and how we could alter our internal ecosystems to prevent and treat a vast range of conditions.”
– Michelle A. Williams, Former Dean, Harvard Chan School
Email
hcmph@hsph.harvard.edu
Location
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
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 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Albert Hofman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Eric Pamer, University of Chicago “Investigating and managing infectious diseases in the microbiome era” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Lora Hooper, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center “Bacterial regulation of vitamin A transport” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Aayushi Uberoi, University of Pennsylvania “Commensal microbes can regulate skin barrier through the control of Tryptophan-Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor cascade” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Varun 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 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Lawrence David, Duke University “DNA metabarcoding for diet tracking” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Scott Handley, Washington University “Computational Approaches for Virome Analysis in Health and Disease” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Long Nguyen, Massachusetts General Hospital “Metagenomic assessment of gut microbial communities and risk of severe COVID-19” |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Karthikeyani Chellappa, University of Pennsylvania “Host-derived nicotinamide in circulation feed gut microbiome“ |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Raaj Mehta, Massachusetts General Hospital “Gut Microbial Metabolism of 5-ASA Diminishes Its Clinical Efficacy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Suzanne Devkota, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center “Visceral fat expansion in complex disease and the microbial cues that drive it” |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Justin Sonnenberg, Stanford University “Gut microbiome industrialization and the rise of chronic inflammatory disease” |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Poster Reception available online all day |