Session III: Host-microbiome interactions

09.00 - 10.30

Session Chair: Julia Oh, National Institute of Health, US

09.00 - 09.45 Julian Marchesi, Imperial College, United Kingdom
The human microbiome in health and disease, using multi-modal omic approaches to explore the dialogue between the host and its microbiome

09.45 - 10.30 Clara Belzer, Wageningen University, Germany
Mucobiome and host cross-talk

Session III (continued)

11.00 - 12.30

11.00 - 11.45 Sven Pettersson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Host-microbe interactions affecting stress regulated circuits

11.45 - 12.00 Muhammad Jaffar Khan, Khyber Medical University, Pakistan
Gut microbota in children with obesity of different aetiology; cause or effect?

12.00 - 12.15 Marianna Roselli, Food & Nutrition Research Center, Council for Agricultural RTesearch and Economics, Italy
Impact of supplementation with a food-derived microbial community on obesity associated inflammation and gut microbiota composition

12.15 - 12.30 Francesco Strati, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
Characterization of the bacterial and fungal microbiota in Rett syndrome

foresight session

14.00 - 16.00

Session Chair: Claudio Donatti, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

14.00 - 14.45 Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, US
High-precision meta'omic profiling for gut microbial biogeography

14.45 - 15.30 Nicola Segata, Universita'di Trento, Italy
Strain level population genomics of microbial strains from shotgun metagenomics

15.30 - 15.45 Bruno Fosso, Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, CNR, Italy
BioMaS (Bioinformatic analysis of Metagenomic ampliconS): a user-friendly web resource for amplicon-based metagenomics

15.45 - 16.00 Moreno Zolfo, Universita' di Trento, Italy
MetaMLST: multi-locus strain-level bacterial typing from metagenomic samples

(Continued) foresight session

16.30 - 18.15

16.30 - 17.15 Lorenza Putignani, Ospedale Bambiono Gesù, Italy
Integrated meta-omic profiling to unveil pediatric microbiota patterns under physiological and disease conditions

17.15 - 18.15 Standardization and validation of methods in microbiome research

Moderator: Claudio Donati, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

Panel:

Julian R. Marchesi, Cardiff University/Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Julia Oh, National Institute of Health, US
Clara Belzer, Wageningen University, NL
Nicolas Segata, University of Trento, Italy
Lorenza Putignani, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital and Research Institute, Italy
Peer Bork, EMBL, Germany
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, US

Poster Session

20.30 - 22.30