PROGRAMME Postgraduate Course
The Microbiome Meets the Clinic:
Turning Understanding into New Treatments
Course directors: Georgina Hold, Richard Hansen, Jan Bornschein
Thursday, September 8, 2022
08.30 – 10.10
Session I: Opening - Gut Microbiota Utility in Health Care
Chair: Richard Hansen, Glasgow, United Kingdom + Francesco Boccellato, Oxford, United Kingdom
08.30 – 08.40
01.01. Course Introduction and Welcome
Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia
08.40 – 09.10
01.02. The Gut Microbiome and Medicine
Siew Chien Ng, Hong Kong
09.10 – 09.40
01.03. Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostics
Núria Malats, Madrid, Spain
09.40 – 10.10
01.04. The microbiome and cancer immunotherapy
Dominique Velin, Epalinges, Switzerland
10.10 – 10.30
Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00
Session II: Profiling the gut microbiota for the clinic
Chair: Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia + Mark Pritchard, Liverpool, United Kingdom
10.30 – 11.00
02.01. Million Microbes Project
Lars Engstrand, Stockholm, Sweden
11.00 – 11.30
02.02. Genomics in the clinic
Morgan Langille, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
11.30 – 12.00
02.03. Linking the clues – multi-omics and machine learning
Francesco Asnicar, Trento, Italy
12.00 – 13.15
Lunch Break
13.15 – 14.15
Session III: Is the microbiome relevant in every day practice? | Open Discussion
Chair: Karen Robinson, Nottingham, United Kingdom + Jan Bornschein, Oxford, United Kingdom
03.01. Presenter of the case:
Pali Hungin, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Panelists:
03.02. Timothy Hardy, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
03.03. Tanya Monaghan, Nottingham, United Kingdom
03.04. James McIlroy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
14.15 – 15.35
Session IV: Microbiome as an adjunct to therapy
Chair: Kenneth McColl, Glasgow, United Kingdom + Gauri Godbole, London, United Kingdom
14.15 – 14.40
04.01. The Prebiotic Story
Lindsay Hall, Norwich, United Kingdom
14.40 – 15.05
04.02. Next generation probiotics
Alan Walker, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
15.05 – 15.30
04.03. Microbial culture - Kochs postulates to durable therapeutics
Jeremiah Faith, New York, NY, USA
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.20
Session V: Standardisation of Clinical Microbiome Reporting
Chair: Anthony Axon, Leeds, United Kingdom + Richard Hansen, Glasgow, United Kingdom
16.00 – 16.20
05.01. Telling them what they need to know – Scientist perspective
Julian Marchesi, London, United Kingdom
Debate about the microbiome (for/against)
16.20 – 16.40
05.02. Microbiome is the final answer (treatment and clinical outcomes)
Juozas Kupcinskas, Kaunas, Lithuania
16.40 – 17.00
05.03. Microbiome testing and reporting is not ready for mainstream clinical practice
Gauri Godbole, London, United Kingdom
17.00 – 17.20
Panel discussion on future directions
17.20 – 18.00
Session VI: State-of-the-Art Lecture
Chair: Georgina Hold, Sydney, Australia
06.01. Next generation metabolomics is enhancing the connections of diet and health, redefining the bile acid metabolic network and biomarker discovery
Pieter C. Dorrestein, La Jolla, CA, USA
19.00 – 20.00
Welcome Reception hosted by the Lord Provost of Glasgow at the Glasgow City Chambers