1st Symposium on the Microbiota of the Faculty of Medicine

Date : 2 novembre 2018
Heure : 8h à 17h
Lieu : Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, salle K-500
Prix : Gratuit
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On November 2, 2018, the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal will organize its first symposium on microbiome research in the context of the celebrations of its 175th anniversary.

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Themes

The conferences will address six major themes:

  1. basic research;
  2. antibiotic resistance;
  3. neurological diseases;
  4. cancer;
  5. cardiovascular diseases;
  6. one health (animal and human health).

Program

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Friday, November 2

Time Activities Speakers
8:00 Registration
08:30 Welcome Hébert, Marie-Josée
Boisjoly, Hélène
Baron, Christian
8:45 Plenary session – Your microbiome, my microbiome, our microbiome: commonalities and differences Jacques Corbeil
9:30 Lessons from the analysis of plant microbiomes – a bioinformatics/genomics approach Franz Lang
9:45 The evolution of Vibrio cholerae within infected patients Jesse Shapiro
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Heart-Gut-Brain axis Guy Rousseau/Roger Godbout
10:45 Predicting and Tuning the Course of Microbial Evolution Adrian Serohijos
11:00 A synthetic biology platform to generate and screen natural product-like chemical space for novel antibiotic activities Almer van der Sloot (laboratoire de Michael David Tyers)
11:15 Detection of antibiotics and degradation products in waste waters Sébastien Sauvé
11:30 The influence of gut microbiome on cancer immunotherapy Bertrand Routy
11:45 Iron supplementation, gut microbiota, and colon carcinogenesis Manuela Santos
12:00 Lunch
13:15 Plenary session – Antibiotic and anticancer resistance from the environment to the human microbiome Gerry Wright
14:00 The role of the microbiome for Parkinson’s disease Michel Desjardins / Louis-Eric Trudeau
14:15 Gut Microbiota and the Gut-retina Axis in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Mike Sapeiha
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Microbiota of animals Marcio Costa
15:15 Pulmonary microbiome in asthma in animals Mathilde Leclère
15:30 Application of probiotics for human health Thomas Tompkins
15:45 Development of a diagnostic toolbox to monitor the microbiota health in a public health laboratory Sandrine Moreira
16:00 Plenary session Yves Brun
16:45 Closing Christian Baron
17:00 Cocktail and Posters session
19:00 VIP Dinner (only by invitation)

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