PROGRAMME Postgraduate Course
The Microbiome Meets the Clinic:
Turning Understanding into New Treatments
Course directors: Georgina Hold, Richard Hansen, Jan Bornschein
Thursday, September 8, 2022
08.30 – 10.10
Session I: Opening - Gut Microbiota Utility in Health Care
Chair: Richard Hansen, Glasgow, United Kingdom + Francesco Boccellato, Oxford, United Kingdom
08.30 – 08.40
01.01. Course Introduction and Welcome
Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia
08.40 – 09.10
01.02. The Gut Microbiome and Medicine
Siew Chien Ng, Hong Kong
09.10 – 09.40
01.03. Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostics
Núria Malats, Madrid, Spain
09.40 – 10.10
01.04. The microbiome and cancer immunotherapy
Dominique Velin, Epalinges, Switzerland
10.10 – 10.30
Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00
Session II: Profiling the gut microbiota for the clinic
Chair: Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia + Mark Pritchard, Liverpool, United Kingdom
10.30 – 11.00
02.01. Million Microbes Project
Lars Engstrand, Stockholm, Sweden
11.00 – 11.30
02.02. Genomics in the clinic
Morgan Langille, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
11.30 – 12.00
02.03. Linking the clues – multi-omics and machine learning
Francesco Asnicar, Trento, Italy
12.00 – 13.15
Lunch Break
13.15 – 14.15
Session III: Is the microbiome relevant in every day practice? | Open Discussion
Chair: Karen Robinson, Nottingham, United Kingdom + Jan Bornschein, Oxford, United Kingdom
03.01. Presenter of the case:
Pali Hungin, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Panelists:
03.02. Rebecca Dunn, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
03.03. Tanya Monaghan, Nottingham, United Kingdom
03.04. James McIlroy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
14.15 – 15.35
Session IV: Microbiome as an adjunct to therapy
Chair: Kenneth McColl, Glasgow, United Kingdom + Gauri Godbole, London, United Kingdom
14.15 – 14.40
04.01. The Prebiotic Story
Lindsay Hall
14.40 – 15.05
04.02. Next generation probiotics
Alan Walker, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
15.05 – 15.30
04.03. Microbial culture - Kochs postulates to durable therapeutics
Jeremiah Faith, New York, NY, USA
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.20
Session V: Standardisation of Clinical Microbiome Reporting
Chair: Anthony Axon, Leeds, United Kingdom + Richard Hansen, Glasgow, United Kingdom
16.00 – 16.20
05.01. Telling them what they need to know – Scientist perspective
Julian Marchesi, London, United Kingdom
Debate about the microbiome (for/against)
16.20 – 16.40
05.02. Microbiome is the final answer (treatment and clinical outcomes)
Juozas Kupcinskas, Kaunas, Lithuania
16.40 – 17.00
05.03. Microbiome testing and reporting is not ready for mainstream clinical practice
Gauri Godbole, London, United Kingdom
17.00 – 17.20
Panel discussion on future directions
17.20 – 18.00
Session VI: State-of-the-Art Lecture
Chair: Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia
06.01. Pieter C. Dorrestein, La Jolla, CA, USA
19.00 – 20.00
Welcome Reception hosted by the Lord Provost of Glasgow at the Glasgow City Chambers