Program

Dr. Elena Verdu, Director, Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute

Dr. Susan Tighe, President and Vice-Chancellor, McMaster University

Dr. Morag Park, President and Scientific Director, Gairdner Foundation

Emily Leeming (King’s College, London, UK): The complexities of diet-microbiota relationships

Maya Kaelberer (University of Arizona, US): Diet and microbiota sensing in the gut

Shahrokh Shekarriz (McMaster University): Molecular detection of diet and its link to the microbiota

Francisco Quintana (Harvard University, US): Microbial control of immune activation in the brain

Giovanni Barbara (University of Bologna, Italy): Microbial regulation of barrier function

Fernando Vicentini (McMaster University): Microbial phospholipids, pain and behaviour

John Cryan (University College Cork, Ireland): Microbiota and psychiatric disorders

Ali Keshavarzian (Rush University, Chicago, US): Gut microbiota and circadian rhythm

Giada De Palma (McMaster University): Bacterial histamine and visceral pain in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Michael Surette & Paul Moayyedi (McMaster University): FMT now and the future

Premysl Bercik (McMaster University): Probiotics & and the gut-brain axis: from mouse to man

Zeinab Hosseinidoust (McMaster University): The therapeutic potential of phage therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Dr. Elena Verdu and Dr. Stephen M. Collins, Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute