Moderator: Francisco Guarner – Speakers: Karen Scott, Colin Hill Karen Scott’s presentation was designed as a pedagogical introduction to the notion of prebiotics. She put forward the definition given in Gibson et al 2010: “Prebiotics are a selectively fermented
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Speakers: Dirk Haller (Germany), Balfour Sartor (USA) Prof. Haller started his presentation by pointing out that “dysbiosis” is not a good term, because nobody knows what dysbiosis really means. To be able to understand what dysbiosis is, you would
Speakers: Anne Vrieze (Netherlands), Lawrence Brandt (USA) Dr Vrieze’s talk focused on faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as a therapy for metabolic syndrome and C. difficile inflammation (CDI), under the guiding question whether the lacking diversity of the gut microbiota,
Moderated by Paul W O'Toole and Joël Doré (@dorejoel) Moderators aimed to make technical differences between the two categories of microbial community analysis, to help understand methods involved in gut microbiota analysis and to answer clinical questions involving analysis
Dr Alice Liou, first author of a recent article published in Science Translational Medicine, gives us some clarification about gastric bypass effect on intestinal microbiota. 1) What is your background ? I am a gastrointestinal physiologist with an
Gut Microbiota For Health Summit 2013: Interview with family doctor and BBC media medic Mark Porter
5 Mar 2013by GMFH Editing Team
The famous British TV presenter and family doctor Mark Porter hosted the Gut Microbiota For Health Summits 2012 (Evian, France) and 2013 (Madrid, Spain). In this interview he talks about his personal impressions of the two summits and why a
The gut microbiota has an essential role in stimulating the development and maintenance of the intestinal immune system – in fact, without the gut microbiome the human body would be unable to protect its health from being affected by all
(This report can be downloaded for free as a PDF.) One of the most intimate relationships that our body has with the outside world is through our gut. Our gastrointestinal tracts harbor a vast and still largely unexplored microbial world
One of the exciting elements about personalised medicine in general and gut microbiota research in particular is that it's taking place at a time when the internet allows every user worldwide to easily share information. Altogether the information exchanged forms
