Program

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

More information is available on the main Symposium Page.

May 19, 2025
(All times below are EDT)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – Snyder Auditorium
Also available via Zoom

8:30 – 8:45	Welcome & Introduction
8:45 – 9:00	Opening Remarks Speaker TBD
9:00 – 10:00	Pieter Dorrestein, University of California, San Diego “Uncovering hidden microbiome-derived molecules in the era of big data metabolomics”
10:00 – 10:30	Erika Ganda, Pennsylvania State University “Current and future directions for the study of the human oral microbiome and cancer risk”
10:30 – 10:45	Short talk speaker TBD “talk title”
10:45 – 11:00	Short talk speaker TBD “talk title”
11:00 – 11:30	Break
11:30 – 12:00	Carrie Daniel-MacDougall, MD Anderson Cancer Center “talk title”
12:00 – 12:30	Andrew Gewirtz, Georgia State University “Diet, microbiota, chronic intestinal inflammation, and metabolic syndrome”
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:15	Discussion panel: “Commercialization of Microbiome Science” Participants: pending
2:15 – 2:30	Short talk speaker TBD “talk title”
2:30 – 2:45	Short talk speaker TBD “talk title”
2:45 – 3:15	Break
3:15 – 3:45	Sarah Berry, King’s College London “talk title”
3:45 – 4:45	Paul Cotter, Teagasc Food Research Centre “Unleashing the potential of food system microbiomes”
4:45 – 5:00	Closing Remarks
5:00 – 6:30	Poster Reception (also available online all day)

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