Program
2024 GMFH Summit
All times are in local time – Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Crossing the threshold from lab to life: Clinical & dietary manipulation of the human gut microbiome for better health
Saturday, March 23
8:30 am
Welcome
Gail A. Hecht, MD, MS, Loyola University Medical Center
Giovanni Barbara, MD, University of Bologna
8:45 am
Opening Keynote Lecture
The gut microbiome in health and disease: Lessons learned and paving the way for the future
Eran Elinav, MD, Weizmann Institute
PLENARY SESSION 1: BETTER HEALTH THROUGH THE GUT MICROBIOME
Session Moderator: David Brent Polk, MD, University of California San Diego
9:15 am
Improving immunity through the gut microbiome
Meng Wu, PhD, Washington University
9:45 am
Leveraging the gut microbiome to promote human longevity
Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
10:00 am
Food additives interact with the microbiome in health and disease
Nathan Price, PhD, Thorne HealthTech
10:15 am
Microbiome shifts in the preclinical phase of inflammatory bowel disease
Kenneth Croitoru, MD, AGAF, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
10:45 am
Morning Break
PLENARY SESSION 2: BRINGING NEW MICROBIOME-BASED PRODUCTS TO MARKET
Session Moderator: Joël Doré, PhD, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France)
11:15 am
How regulators around the world think about microbiome-based products
Paul Carlson, PhD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
11:30 am
Magali Cordaillat-Simmons, PhD
11:45 am
Moderator facilitated discussion with audience question and answer
12:00 pm
Legal considerations: Microbes, intellectual property and patents
Craig Thomson, HGF Ltd.
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1
2:00 – 3:15 pm
Workshop 1: Correcting dysbiotic microbial functional deficits
Moderator: Balfour Sartor, MD, University of North Carolina
Speakers:
Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, PhD, MBA, Gusto Global LLC
Harry Sokol, MD, PhD, Sorbonne Université, APHP, and Saint-Antoine Hospital
Workshop 2: Dietary biomarkers and gut microbiome biomarkers for health and disease – opportunities and pitfalls
Moderator: Emeran Mayer, MD, University of California Los Angeles
Speakers:
Lorraine Brennan, PhD, University College Dublin
Kenneth Croitoru, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
3:15 pm
Afternoon Break
3:45 – 5:00 pm
Workshops 3 and 4
3:45 PM
BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2 (two concurrent sessions)
Workshop 3: Personalized nutrition to engineer the microbiome
Moderator: David Brent Polk, MD, University of California San Diego
Speakers:
Jack Gilbert, PhD, University of California San Diego
Sharon Donovan, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Workshop 4: Future of microbiome therapies beyond C. difficile infection
Moderator: Colleen R. Kelly, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Speakers:
Dina Kao, MD, University of Alberta
Iliyan Iliev, PhD, Weill Cornell
5:00 pm
Networking Reception
7:00 pm
End od Day 1
Sunday, March 24
PLENARY SESSION 3: FROM HUMAN-DERIVED TO SYNTHETIC COMMUNITIES
Moderator: Gary D. Wu, MD, University of Pennsylvania
8:30 am
Next generation single-species live biotherapeutic probiotics
Amandine Everard, PhD, UC Louvain
9:00 am
Moving from microbiota transplantation to fully synthetic communities
Alice Cheng, MD, PhD, Stanford University
9:30 am
Overcoming the challenges of “living” drugs: making microbiome-based products stable and reproducible
Scott Jackson, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
10 am Morning Break
PLENARY SESSION 4: BIG DATA AND THE GUT MICROBIOME
Session Moderator: Purna Kashyap, MBBS, Mayo Clinic
10:30 am
AI and the gut microbiome
Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, MPH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
11:00 am
Pharmacomicrobiomics
Matthew Redinbo, PhD, UNC Chapel Hill
11:30 am
Diagnostic tests
Joël Doré, PhD, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France)
CLOSING KEYNOTE
12:00 pm
Healthy eating as a microbiome host
Jens Walter, PhD, University College Cork
12:45 pm
Closing Remarks
Harry Sokol, MD, PhD, Sorbonne Université, APHP, and Saint-Antoine Hospital
Gail A. Hecht, MD, MS, Loyola University Medical Center
12:50 pm
End of Program
