Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center

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

More information is available on the main Symposium Page.

May 13, 2024
(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
Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
9:00 – 10:00 Jun Yu, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences
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10:00 – 10:30 Emily Vogtmann, National Cancer Institute
“Current and future directions for the study of the human oral microbiome and cancer risk”
10:30 – 10:45 Short talk
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10:45 – 11:00 Short talk
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11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Robert Holt, BC Research Cancer Institute
“Can we vaccinate against the oncomicrobe Fusobacterium nucleatum?”
12:00 – 12:30 Francesco Asnicar, University of Trento
“Human gut microbiome as a tool in oncology”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:15 Discussion panel: “Commercialization of Microbiome Science”
Participants: Damian Cabral (Merck), Anik Debnath (Tenza), Phil Strandwitz (Holobiome), Sabrina Yang (Empress Therapeutics), Koji Yasuda (Fast Track Initiative), Jeremy Wilkinson (PacBio)
2:15 – 2:30 Short talk
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2:30 – 2:45 Short talk,
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2:45 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 3:45 Florencia McAllister, MD Anderson Cancer Center
“Gut-tumors microbial axis in pancreatic cancer and beyond”
3:45 – 4:45 Marcel van den Brink, City of Hope
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4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks
5:00 – 6:30 Poster Reception (also available online all day)