EMBL, Heidelberg
2015-06-10
Human microbiota, the collection of microbes living in and on our body, have a significant impact on human health and well-being. They have been associated with numerous diseases, yet we have barely understood their role in the context of life-style and genetics. Various initiatives are underway around the world to survey the human microbiota at several body sites, characterize them, understand their interactions with the human hosts, elucidate their role in diseases, and design possible therapeutic or dietary interventions. Despite numerous activities in this expanding and diversifying field, a large international conference on this important topic is currently lacking in Europe. This event will provide plentiful opportunities for European researchers to learn about and to connect to important developments in this field.
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Invited Speakers:
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Confirmed SpeakersEmma Allen-Vercoe, University of Guelph, Canada Fredrik Bäckhed, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Martin J. Blaser, New York University, USA Willem de Vos, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Joël Doré, INRA, France S. Dusko Ehrlich, MetaGenoPolis, France Colin Hill, University College Cork, Ireland Georgina Hold, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Rob Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, MPI for Neurobiology Munich, Germany Paul O'Toole, University College Cork, Ireland Joseph F. Petrosino, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Jeroen Raes, KU Leuven, Belgium Julie A. Segre, NHGRI, NIH, USA Morten Sommer, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Peter Turnbaugh, University of California San Francisco, USA Jun Wang, BGI-Shenzhen, China Owen R. White, University of Maryland, USA Cisca Wijmenga, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Liping Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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