PROGRAMME Postgraduate Course

EHMSG Postgraduate Course

“Gut microbiome: news in diagnostics and therapeutics”

September 11, 2025

Course directors: Francesco Franceschi, Antonio Gasbarrini, Gianluca Ianiro

08.30 – 09.00 Registration

09.00 – 09.15 Welcoming

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09.15 – 10.30 Session I: Gut microbiome diagnostics

Chairs: Giovanni Cammarota, Maurizio Sanguinetti

09.15 - 09.40 hrs

01.01. Gut microbiome testing in oncology

Laurence Zitvogel, Paris, France

09.40 - 10.05

01.02. Gut microbiome testing in chronic noncommunicable disorders

Siew Ng, hong Kong, China

10.05 - 10.30 hrs

01.03. Standardizing gut microbiome testing: ready for prime time?

Serena Porcari, Italy

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.15 Session II: Beyond gut microbiome diagnostics

Chair: Peter Malfertheiner, Munich, Germany, Sinead Smith, Dublin, Ireland

11.00 - 11.25 hrs

02.01. Breath testing for the evaluation of gut ecosystems: from lactulose and Urea to Breathomics

Loris Riccardo Lopetuso, Italy

11.25 - 11.50 hrs

02.02. Metabolomics: challenges and opportunities

Rinse K. Weersma, Netherlands

11.50 - 12.15 hrs

02.03. Microbial diagnostics in other body sites

Lars Engstrand, Stockholm, Sweden

12.15 - 13.15 hrs | Lunch break

13.15 - 14.30 | Session III: Therapeutic modulators of gut microbiome: antibiotics, pre- and probiotics

Chair: Carmelo Scarpignato, Lorenza Putignani

13.15 - 13.40 hrs

03.01. Advancing probiotics to the next level

Giovanni Barbara, Bologna, Italy

13.40 - 14.05 hrs

03.02. Which prebiotics in the therapeutic armamentarium of clinicians?

Maria Carmen Collado, Spain

14.05 - 14.30 hrs

03.03. Antibiotics for gut microbiota

Francesca Romana Ponziani, Italy

14.30 - 15.00 | Coffee-break

15.00 - 16.15 | Session IV: Therapeutic modulators of gut microbiome: FMT and beyond

Chair: Josbert Keller, Mirjana Rajilic-Stojanovic, Belgrade, Serbia

15.00 - 15.25 hrs

04.01. FMT: what’s new

Nicolas Benech, France

15.25 - 15.50 hrs

04.02. An ecological approach to gut microbiota modulation

Jens Walter, Ireland

15.50 - 16.15 hrs

04.03. Current landscape of artificial microbiome therapeutics

Benjamin Mullish, United Kingdom

16.15 - 16.25 Closing

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