Chair
Xiao-Ming Yin, MD, PhD
Tulane University
Co-Chair
Wenke Feng, PhD
University of Louisville
Co-Chair
Maria Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Tufts University
Co-Chair
José Otero, MD, PhD
The Ohio State University
Session Description: Humans carry a vast number of bacteria and other microbiota species from birth, and you may be more bacteria than you are you. An increasing importance of microbiota in human health and diseases has been recognized. Whatever your research subjects are, chances are that they may be influenced by the microbiota. This symposium will discuss the impact of gut microbiota on diseases ranging from neurodegeneration to diabetes, from the liver to the heart, and from the immune cells to the bone.
| Chair - Welcome and Introductions | ||
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Gut Microbiome and Immune Response Aleksander D. Kostic, PhD • Harvard University |
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| 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM | The Microbiome-Brain-β Cell Axis in Metabolic Syndrome Rachel J. Perry PhD • Yale School of Medicine |
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| 3:10 PM - 3:40 PM | Dietary Metabolism, the Gut Microbiome and Cardiovascular Health Wai Hong Wilson Tang, MD • Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine/Case Western Reserve University |
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| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Gut Microbiota and Neurodegeneration Ali Keshavarzian, MD • Rush University Medical Center |
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| 4:20 PM - 4:50 P | A Gut Microbiota Dysregulates Osteoimmune Cross Talk in Postpubertal Skeletal Development Chad M. Novince, PhD, DDS • Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine |
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| 4:55 PM - 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks |