Professor of Psychiatry Ted Dinan, from the University College Cork, is one of the world main experts on this link between mental health and our guts. We interviewed him during the 5th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2016, held in Miami in February and we had the opportunity to talk about the gut-brain axis.
An interview with José Clemente: “Early life changes in microbiota as a result of C-Section may be responsible for diseases in children later on”
22 Jun 2016by GMFH Editing Team
During the 5th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2016 José Clemente, assistant professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, talk about the importance of gut microbiota at early life.
Two months to go until the 5th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit. Let’s warm up with a video report on the last edition: GMFH 2015
5 Jan 2016by GMFH Editing Team
The science community’s increasing interest in the bacteria found in our guts and the important role they play in our health led to the success of previous editions, held in Evian, Madrid, Miami and Barcelona. This year, it’s Miami’s turn once again, with the event being held on 5 and 6 March.
An interview with Martin Blaser: "One of the greatest threats to microbiota health is probably overuse of antibiotics"
18 Nov 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Martin J. Blaser, director of the Department of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, is one of the world's greatest experts in the relationship between use and overuse of antibiotics and the gut microbiota. We were able to interview him during the 4th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit.
An interview with Elaine Hsiao: "The gut is often called the second brain because it has its very own nervous system"
21 Oct 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Researcher Elaine Hsiao, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), gave us an interview at the 4th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2015.
An interview with Brent Polk: "Just a few years ago, we thought humans were completely sterile at birth"
23 Sep 2015by GMFH Editing Team
During the 4th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2015, we had the opportunity to interview Professor Brent Polk, Chair of the Pediatrics Department at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Interview with Dr. Gary Wu: Studying bacterial metabolites may lead to new treatments for IBD
4 Sep 2015by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Gary D. Wu is a Professor in Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania and currently Director and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the American Gastroenterological Association Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education.
Liping Zhao and colleagues, in their recent paper on a dietary intervention for simple and genetic obesity, discussed evidence for the existence of gut microbiota 'guilds': bacterial genomes within the gut ecosystem that responded to the dietary intervention as a group.
Francisco Guarner, director of the Digestive System Research Unit at University Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona (Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron), granted us an interview during the 4th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2015 to discuss the microbiota and humans.
For Dr. Vanni Bucci, assistant professor of computational biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, new treatments are not the only way to make progress in medicine.