PROGRAMME

Postgraduate Course

September 10, 2020

The Microbiome Meets the Clinic: 
Turning Understanding into New Treatments

Course directors: 
Georgina Hold, Richard Hansen, Jan Bornschein

08.30 – 10.10        Opening Session - Session I: Gut Microbiota Utility in Health Care 
                                Chairs: Richard Hansen & Jan Bornschein

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08.30 – 08.40        Course Introduction and Welcome 
                               Georgina Hold, Australia    

08.40 – 09.10        The Gut Microbiome – the latest branch of medicine     
                                Juozas Kupcinskas, Lithuania

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09.10 – 09.40        Microbial Therapeutics: Are we there yet? Clinicians perspective     
                               Tariq Iqbal, United Kingdom

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09.40 – 10.10        Harnessing the microbiome – Virome Potential     
                                Indrani Mukhopadhya, United Kingdom

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10.10 – 10.30        Coffee Break

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10.30 – 11.30        Session II: How to Handle the Microbiome                               

                                Chairs: Georgina Hold & Omry Koren

10.30 - 10.50         What defines the Healthy Microbiome
                                Georgina Hold, Australia

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10.50 - 11.10        Practical Considerations for understanding the Microbiome
                               Lars Engstrand, Sweden

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11.10 - 11.30        Microbiome Analysis – Bioinformatics Perspective

                               Chris Quince, United Kingdom

11.30 – 12.30        Lunch

12.30 – 13.30        Session III: Cases with TED
                               Chairs: Jan Bornschein & Colm O‘Morain

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12.30 - 12.50       The H. pylori -infected patient
                                Marcis Leja + Trainee, Latvia

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12.50 - 13.10        The IBD or severe/complex IBD patient
                                Theodore Rokkas + Trainee, Greece

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13.10 - 13.30        The FMT treated patient
                                Antonio Gasbarrini + Trainee, Italy

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13.30 - 14.50       Session IV: Microbiome in non GI conditions
                               Chairs: Lars Engstrand & Gianluca Ianiro

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13.30 - 13.50        Birth and Early Life
                               Omry Koren, Israel

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13.50 - 14.10        Microbes and Brain Function
                                Daniel Wall, United Kingdom
    
14.10 - 14.30        Atopic disease
                                Reetta Satokari, Finland

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14.30 - 14.50        Cancer
                                Patricia LePage, France 

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14.50 - 15.20        Coffee Break

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15.20 - 17.00        Session V: Nutrition and the Gut Microbiota
                                Chairs: Georgina Hold & Tariq Iqbal

                                                                                                       supported by the 

15.20 - 15.40        The Microbiota in Obesity Associated Disease 
                                Marie Joossens, Belgium

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15.40 - 16.00        The Microbiota in Anorexia/Malnutrition
                                Mirjana Rajilic-Stojanovic, Serbia

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16.00 - 16.20        The Microbiota and Liver Disease
                                Debbie Shawcross, United Kingdom

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16.20 - 16.40        State-of-the-Art Success story – Using the microbiome to turn liquid diet into solid food:  

                               The CD-TREAT diet for treating Crohn’s disease    
                                Richard Hansen, United Kingdom

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16.40 - 17.00        Future Directions
                               Antonio Gasbarrini, Italy

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17.00 - 18.20        FAR EAST SYMPOSIUM -  What’s new in pathogenic factors of H. pylori?

17.00 – 17.20       New Role of CagA as immune-sensitive regulator in multi-cagA genotype

                               Jeong-Heon Cha, Yonsei, Korea

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17.20 – 17.40       Unexpected role of TLR5: Flagellin-independent but T4SS-dependent activation controls 

                               Helicobacter pylori infections

                               Steffen Backert, Erlangen, Germany

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17.40 – 18.00        Pathogenesis of H. pylori from the point of view of Asia

                               Yoshio Yamaoka, Yufu, Japan

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19.00 – 20.00        Welcome Reception hosted by the Lord Provost of Glasgow and take place at the Glasgow City Chambers  

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