2018 Frontiers in Mucosal Immunology (FIMI)

Microbes, Genes, and Metabolites

Friday, November 30, 2018

8AM to 4.30PM

The Rotunda at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

Free and open to the public - lunch will be available for registered attendees

Schedule

8.15-8.3	Breakfast, welcome and introduction
	Lynn Bry, PhD, MD, BWH
Microbes, genes, and metabolites that influence host physiology
8.30-9	Microbial genes that alter host metabolism
	Abigail Sloan Devlin, PhD, HMS
9-9.30	Performance-enhancing bugs
	Alex Kostic PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center
9.30-10	Effects of maternal gut bacteria on neurodevelopmental disorders
	Jun Huh, PhD, HMS
10-10.30	Microbes and microbial products that influence early-life thymic T cell development
	Nitya Jain, PhD, MGH
10.30-10.45	Break

*New directions in C. difficile disease*
10.45-11.15	A novel wnt signalling inhibitor based on C. difficile toxin B
	Min Dong, PhD, BCH
11.15-11.45	Mechanisms behind current C. difficile infections across patient populations
	Jessica Allegretti, MD, BWH
11.45-12.15	Genomics and clinical risks of asymptomatic C. difficile carriage in hospitalized patients
	Jay Worley, MD, BWH

12.15-1	Lunch

Machine learning approaches
1-1.30	Towards rational bacteriotherapy design with machine learning models
	Travis Gibson, PhD, BWH
1.30-2	Computational optimization of Treg-inducing live bacteriotherapeutics
	Vannie Bucci, PhD, UMass Dartmouth
2-2.30	Carnelian: enhanced functional profiling of whole genome metagenomics
	Sumaiya Nazeen, PhD, MIT

2.30-2.45	Break

Microbiota Boot Camp: Host-Microbiome Systems a HOW-TO
2.45-3.15	Functional systems to drive microbiota-based clinical applications
	Lynn Bry, PhD, MD, BWH
3.15-3.45	Measuring the metabolic effects of the microbiome on energy balance
	Alex Banks, PhD, BIDMC
3.45-4.15	Predicting the microbiome and predicting the microbiome over time
	Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, BWH
4.15-4.30	Questions and close