Speaker articles
Take a look at what some of our Infection Biology in the Age of the Microbiome speakers have published recently and chat with them about their work in Paris, France.
Keynote Speakers:
Eran Elinav, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features
Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA
Critical symbiont signals drive both local and systemic changes in diel and developmental host gene expression
Speakers:
Emily Balskus, Harvard University, USA
The human gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin alkylates DNA
Andreas Baumler, UC Davis, USA
Commensal Enterobacteriaceae Protect against Salmonella Colonization through Oxygen Competition
Yasmine Belkaid, NIAID, USA
Commensal-specific T cell plasticity promotes rapid tissue adaptation to injury
Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur, France
More than 18,000 effectors in the Legionella genus genome provide multiple, independent combinations for replication in human cells
Laurent Debarbieux, Institut Pasteur, France
The Battle Within: Interactions of Bacteriophages and Bacteria in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Kevin Foster, University of Oxford, UK
The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare
Andrew Gewirtz, Georgia State University, USA
Fiber-Mediated Nourishment of Gut Microbiota Protects against Diet-Induced Obesity by Restoring IL-22-Mediated Colonic Health
Andrew Goodman, Yale University, USA
Separating host and microbiome contributions to drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity
Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon, USA
A bacterial immunomodulatory protein with lipocalin-like domains facilitates host–bacteria mutualism in larval zebrafish
Purna Kashyap, Mayo Clinic, USA
Gut Microbiota-Produced Tryptamine Activates an Epithelial G-Protein-Coupled Receptor to Increase Colonic Secretion
Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes
Ilan Rosenshine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Pathogenic E. coli Extracts Nutrients from Infected Host Cells Utilizing Injectisome Components
June Round,University of Utah, USA
Expansion of Bacteriophages Is Linked to Aggravated Intestinal Inflammation and Colitis
Vanessa Sperandio, UT Southwestern, USA
Bacteriophage Transcription Factor Cro Regulates Virulence Gene Expression in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Nassos Typas, EMBL, Germany
Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations