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General Topic: Microbiome milieu: Diet, drugs, and environment

Saturday, March 15, 2025

8:30–8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Day 1 kickoff
Gail A. Hecht, MD, MS, Loyola University Chicago

8:45–9:15 a.m.
Opening keynote lecture
NutriOmics — the microbiome in a systems approach to obesity
Karine Clément, MD, PhD, Sorbonne Université

PLENARY SESSION 1:
Dietary drivers of health and disease
Session Moderator: Joël Doré, PhD,
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment

9 a.m.
Epidemiological considerations of the diet-microbiome intersection
Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MBBS, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital

9:30 a.m.
Food taxonomy and the integration of dietary and microbiome data
Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD, University of Minnesota

10 a.m.
Food additives interact with the microbiome in health and disease
Benoit Chassaing, PhD, Institut Pasteur

10:30–11:00 a.m.
Morning break

PLENARY SESSION 2
Extra-intestinal implications of the gut microbiome
Session Moderator: Emeran Mayer, MD, University of California Los Angeles

11 a.m.
Metabolic syndrome, MASLD and auto-brewery syndrome
Bernd Schnabl, MD, University of California San Diego

11:30 a.m.
Cardiovascular disease and the gut microbiota
Chenhao Li, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute

Noon
The gut brain axis and implications of the microbiome in neurodegenerative diseases
Malú Gámez Tansey, PhD, University of Florida

12:30 p.m.
Networking lunch

1:15 p.m.
Abstract presenter lightning talks

WORKSHOP SESSIONS

2–3:15 p.m.
Workshops 1 and 2

Workshop 1: Nutrition for health: Tailoring recommendations based on disease and health status
Moderator: Dirk Haller, PhD, Technical University of Munich
Speakers:
Hannah Holscher, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lawrence David, PhD, Duke University

Workshop 2: Non-traditional model systems in microbiome investigations
Moderator: Purna Kashyap, MBBS, Mayo Clinic
Speakers:
Katherine Amato, PhD, Northwestern University
Barbara Rehermann, MD, National Institutes of Health

3:15–3:45 p.m.
Afternoon Break

3:45–5 p.m.
Workshops 3 and 4

Workshop 3: More fiber or less? Alternative stable states
Moderator: Balfour Sartor, MD
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Speakers:
Andrew Gewirtz, PhD, Georgia State University
Bjoern Schroeder, PhD, Umea University

Workshop 4: Probiotic supplementation and the infant microbiota
Moderator: Brent Polk, MD
University of California San Diego
Speakers:
Geoffrey Preidis, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital
Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD, University of Calgary

5–7 p.m.
Networking reception

Sunday, March 16, 2025

PLENARY SESSION 3:
The extra-bacterial gut ecosystem
Session Moderator: Gary Wu, MD, University of Pennsylvania

8:30–9 a.m.
The Human Virome Program
Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD, invited, National Institutes of Health

9–9:30 a.m.
Multi-drug resistance and phage-bacterial interaction in the gut
Robert (Chip) Schooley, MD, University of California San Diego

9:30–10 a.m.
Fungi shape the gut microbiome and host immune system during development
June Round, PhD, University of Utah

PLENARY SESSION 4
The gut microbiome and oncology
Session Moderator: Harry Sokol, MD, PhD, Sorbonne Université

10:30 a.m.
The gut microbiome and cancer
Cynthia Sears, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

11 a.m.
Diet as a precision cancer intervention
Carrie R Daniel MacDougall, PhD, MPH, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

11:30 a.m.
Oncological therapeutics and immunotherapy
Jonathan (Tsoni) Peled, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Noon
Closing keynote lecture
A biophysical view of the microbiome
KC Huang, PhD, Stanford University

12:30 p.m.
Closing remarks
Harry Sokol, MD, PhD & Gail Hecht, MD, MS

12:35 p.m.
End of program