PROGRAM
Next Meeting:
ATLANTIC: MAY 10 2022PACIFIC: MAY 12 2022
KEYNOTE TALK
Host microbiota interactions and colon cancer
prof Wendy Garrett

Bio
Wendy Garrett is the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. She is co-director and co-founder of the Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center. Dr. Garrett’s team explores interactions between the gut microbiome and the immune system, both in physiological and pathological conditions, with a focus on inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer. Her team has identified microbial species, functions, and metabolites influencing host health and disease by using an interdisciplinary approach bridging meta’omics, microbiology, cellular immunology, biochemistry, cell biology, and cancer biology. The mission of Dr. Garrett’s lab is to identify basic biologic mechanisms to be applied to precision medicine.
SELECTED TALKS
Gut metagenome associations with extensive digital health data in a volunteer-based Estonian microbiome cohort
Kertu Liis Krigul and Oliver Aasmets
Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu
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Evaluation of microbiome enrichment and host DNA depletion in human vaginal samples using Oxford Nanopore’s adaptive sequencing
Mike Marquet
University Hospital Jena
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C. difficile is overdiagnosed in adults and a commensal in infants
Pamela Ferretti
EMBL Heidelberg
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HIGHLIGHTS
Open-access Paper Highlights
Maternal metformin treatment persistently ameliorates high-fat diet-induced metabolic symptoms and modulates gut microbiota in rat offspring
Lin Song
Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, China
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Software testing in microbial bioinformatics: a call to action
Inês Mendes
Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
See the abstract!