Program
You can access the Interactive Program of WoM 2020 by clicking on the button above.
Below you can find a Program at a Glance.
By registering for the WoMPBI 20 Conference, you will also have access to the co-located World of Microbiome: Digestive & Metabolic Health 2020 (WoMDMH 20) Confenrence. Both WoM Conferences will have a common exhibition and networking area, and you will have access to the scientific content of the two tracks and the option to attend WoMDMH 20 sessions and participate in discussions.
To preview the Preliminary program of the WoMDMH 20, please follow this link: https://microbiome-dmh.kenes.com/program/
*the Program is Preliminary and is a subject to change.
The Conference will be held in Central European TIme (CET UTC+1).
Please note all live sessions are scheduled in the afternoons, for the convenience of delegates from both Europe and the Americas.
Pre-registration and separate payment is required.
16:00 - 16:45: Introduction to QIIME 2
16:45 - 18:00: Hands-on tutorial
18:00 - 18:30: Break
18:30 - 19:30: Hands-on tutorial
19:30 - 20:30: Open Questions & Answers session
The Conference will be held in Central European TIme (CET UTC+1).
Please note all live sessions are scheduled in the afternoons, for the convenience of delegates from both Europe and the Americas.
The antibiotic crisis: beyond resistance
Martin Blaser, Rutgers University, USA
Host microbiome interactions in health and disease
Eran Elinav, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Microbiome in hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
Enrico Ferrazzi, University of Milan, Italy
Functional Ecology of Early Development of the Microbiome
Kjersti Aagaard, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
The Gut Microbiome Shapes Emotional Behaviors in Mice
Sarkis Mazmanian, California Institute of Technology, USA
Early impacts on the human microbiome
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Rutgers University, USA
Early microbial environment
Maria Carmen Collado, IATA-CSIC, Spain
The long-term microbial differences following C-section delivery, and how this affects the risk of disease in childhood
Jakob Stokholm, COPSAC, Denmark
Lunch Break
Pregnancy and microbiome
Omry Koren, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Microbiome acquisition in early life
Nicola Segata, University of Trento, Italy
Human immune systems are shaped by environmental exposures early in life
Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Life and death on the NICU: impact of gut microbiota in preterm infants on necrotising enterocolitis and sepsis
Nicholas Embleton, Newcastle University, UK
Panel Discussion - LIVE FORUM
No, it does not
Kjersti Aagaard, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Yes, it does
Jakob Stokholm, COPSAC, Denmark
Enrico Ferrazzi, University of Milan, Italy
Kjersti Aagaard, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Sarkis Mazmanian, California Institute of Technology, USA
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Rutgers University, USA
Maria Carmen Collado, IATA-CSIC, Spain
Jakob Stokholm, COPSAC, Denmark
The Conference will be held in Central European TIme (CET UTC+1).
Please note all live sessions are scheduled in the afternoons, for the convenience of delegates from both Europe and the Americas.
Gut microbiome in preterm infants - origin, development and clinical significance
Samuli Rautava, University of Turku, Finland
Understanding meta analysis
Hania Szajewska, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Bioinformatics approaches for evaluating microbiome interventions
Nicholas Bokulich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Considerations for establishing causal claims for the human microbiome
Jens Walter, University College Cork, Ireland
Population-level evidence for vertical transmission of select gut microbiota
Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute Tübingen, Germany
Modern stressors of the host-microbiota relationship in chronic inflammatory diseases
Benoit Chassaing, INSERM, France
From correlational evidence to clinical solutions - the case of neonatal FMT
Katri Korpela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Growth and obesity
Erika Isolauri, Univeristy of Turku, Finland
Maternal carriage of the gut bacterium prevotella copri during pregnancy is associated with reduced offspring atopy at 4 years: a birth cohort study
Lawrence E. Gray, Australia
Neonatal skin barrier formation occurs embryonically and is driven by maternal microbiota
Mercedes Gomez de Agüero, Germany
The relationship between maternal gut microbiota during pregnancy and the offspring’s immune phenotype: a birth cohort study
Yuan Gao, Australia
Escherichia coli is required for adverse metabolic outcomes associated with early life amoxicillin exposure in mice
Carla Sosa, Canada
Human milk oligosaccharides, mother’s milk and infant gut microbiome - links between exclusive-breastfeeding duration and gut bacteria
Maciej Chichlowski, United States of America
Short break
Human milk and the infant microbiome
Meghan Azad, University of Manitoba, Canada
Gut microbiota and Infantile colic
Francesco Savino, University of Torino, Italy
Step-wise assembly of the virome in human infants
Frederic Bushman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Panel Discussion - LIVE FORUM
e-Poster session on Topic 5: Other
Indusry session
Industry session not included in main event CME/CPD credit
Short Break
Hania Szajewska, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Nicholas Bokulich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jens Walter, University College Cork, Ireland
Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute Tübingen, Germany
Benoit Chassaing, INSERM, France
Katri Korpela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Short Break
Topic 1: The importance of clear definitions for probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics and fermented foods for scientific, commercial and regulatory communities.
Probiotics and fermented foods
Mary Ellen Sanders, Dairy & Food Culture Technologies, USA
Postbiotics
Gabriel Vinderola, National University of Litoral, Argentina
Prebiotics and synbiotics
Glenn Gibson, University of Reading, UK
Topic 2: State of recommendations for these products
“Biotics” for paediatric use
Hania Szajewska, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Probiotics for adults
Dan Merenstein, Georgetown University, USA
Panel Discussion - LIVE FORUM
Panellists:Mary Ellen Sanders, USA, Gabriel Vinderola, Argentina, Glenn Gibson,UK, Hania Szajewska, Poland, Dan Merenstein, USA, Olga Sakwinska, Switzerland, Ella Schaefer, Switzerland