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 microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance
Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA
Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper
A peptidoglycan-recognition protein orchestrates the first steps of symbiont recruitment in the squid-vibrio symbiosis
Speakers:
Janelle Ayres, Salk Institute, USA
Adipose triglyceride lipase mediates lipolysis and lipid mobilization in response to iron-mediated negative energy balance
Emily Balskus, Harvard University, USA
The bacterial toxin colibactin triggers prophage induction
Andreas Baumler, UC Davis, USA
Host cells subdivide nutrient niches into discrete biogeographical microhabitats for gut microbes
Yasmine Belkaid, NIAID, USA
Long-term antibiotic exposure promotes mortality after systemic fungal infection by driving lymphocyte dysfunction and systemic escape of commensal bacteria
Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur, France
Genomic erosion and horizontal gene transfer shape functional differences of the ExlA toxin in Pseudomonas spp.
Laurent Debarbieux, Institut Pasteur, France
The gut environment regulates bacterial gene expression which modulates susceptibility to bacteriophage infection
Kevin Foster, University of Oxford, UK
Host control and the evolution of cooperation in host microbiomes
Andrew Gewirtz, Georgia State University, USA
Maternal fiber deprivation alters microbiota in offspring, resulting in low-grade inflammation and predisposition to obesity
Karine Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Conserved Serine Transporter SdaC Moonlights to Enable Self Recognition
Andrew Goodman, Yale University, USA
Gut Commensal Bacteroidetes Encode a Novel Class of Vitamin B12-Binding Proteins
Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon, USA
BefA, a microbiota-secreted membrane disrupter, disseminates to the pancreas and increases β cell mass
Purna Kashyap, Mayo Clinic, USA
Oxidative ornithine metabolism supports non-inflammatory C. difficile colonization
Ruth Ley, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
The developing infant gut microbiome: A strain-level view
Ilan Rosenshine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Discovery of a Novel Inner Membrane-Associated Bacterial Structure Related to the Flagellar Type III Secretion System
June Round, University of Utah, USA
Epithelial-myeloid exchange of MHC class II constrains immunity and microbiota composition
Vanessa Sperandio, UT Southwestern, USA
Gut colonization by Proteobacteria alters host metabolism and modulates cocaine neurobehavioral responses
Nassos Typas, EMBL, Germany
Global mapping of Salmonella enterica-host protein-protein interactions during infection
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