For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
Monday, May 17, 2021
Virtual Meeting via Zoom and all times below are EDT
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Yasmine Belkaid, NIH/NIAID Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Rutgers University “The human microbiome in a disruptive era” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Amy Willis, University of Washington “Estimating microbial abundances from high-throughput sequencing” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Caroline Young, University of Leeds “Screening potential of the CRC-associated microbiome” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Marissa Bivins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Discovery of the Gut Microbial Enzymes that Drive the Dose-Limiting Toxicity of the Immunosuppressant Mycophenolate Mofetil” |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Liz Johnson, Cornell University “Dietary lipids as modulators of microbiome function” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Greg Caporaso, Northern Arizona University “Accessible and reproducible microbiome multi-omics bioinformatics with QIIME 2” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Dong Daniel Wang, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital “The Gut Microbiome Modifies the Associations between Diet and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk” |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Apollo Stacy, NIH/NIGMS “Infection trains the host for microbiota-enhanced resistance to pathogens” |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Amrisha Bhosle, Broad Institute & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Prioritization and Annotation of Novel Bioactive Small Molecules from the Microbiome” |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Elaine Hsiao, University of California, Los Angeles “Interactions between the microbiome and nervous system during early neurodevelopment” |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Peter Turnbaugh, University of California, San Francisco “The tiny pharmacists within: how the microbiome impacts the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases” |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Poster Reception available online all day here |