Crick Symposium: Germfree / Microbiota Topics
This symposium focuses on the role of microbiota in different organisms and tissue sites covering a range of disciplines, which are affected by the overarching role the microbiome plays in health and disease.
Programme
13:00-13:10
Opening remarks
Keynote lecture: Martin Blaser (NYU School of Medicine)
13:10-14:00
Missing Microbes: consequences of early life microbiome perturbations
Kathy McCoy (University of Bern)
14:00- 14:40
Logistics of running a germfree animal facility
Andrew MacPherson (University of Bern)
14:40-15:20
The maternal microbiota and early postnatal innate immune development
Break
15:20-15:50
Trevor Lawley (Wellcome Sanger Center)
15:50-16:30
Host microbe interactions at mucosal surfaces
Francois Leulier (Institut de Génomique Fonctionelle de Lyon)
16:30-17:10
Microbiota and linear growth promotion: lessons from gnotobiotic models
Gerard Eberl (Institut Pasteur Paris)
17:10-17:50
The impact of microbiota on inflammation
Nadine Cerf-Bensussan (Université Paris-Descartes)
17:50-18:30
Host interactions with segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB)
Drinks reception
18:30
Organised by: Brigitta Stockinger (Head of AhRimmunity) and Kathleen Mathers (Director of Biological Research Facility (BRF)) at The Francis Crick Institute
Supported by: Nature Research Group, Miltenyi, Yakult, British Society for Immunology and Biolegend
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