Programme

Invited Talk 1 | Jens Walter | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Modulation of the Human Gut Microbiota-An Ecological Perspective

Offered Talk 1 | Audrey Boniface | Micalis institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, University of Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France, Danone Nutricia Research, Palaiseau, France

Functional and ecological engineering driven by complex carbohydrate associations shapes new probiotics consortia

Offered Talk 2 | Pia Rasinkangas | Global Health and Nutrition Science, DuPont Nutrition and Health, Kantvik, Finland

Changes in gut microbiota composition and metabolism induced by probiotic and synbiotic products shown to control body fat mass - follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Offered Talk 3 | Mia C. Theilmann | Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, DTU, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Lactobacillus acidophilus metabolizes dietary plant glucosides and unleashes their bioactive aglycones

Offered Talk 4 | Barbara U Metzler-Zebeli | University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Transglycosylated starch modifies the cecal bacterial metagenome and gene abundance of key catabolic enzymes for bacterial starch metabolism in pigs

Offered Talk 5 | Indrani Mukhopadhya | Gut Health Group, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Transcriptomics reveals novel insight into co-operative interactions between two human gut symbionts, Ruminococcus bromii and Blautia hydrogenotrophica in co-culture

Offered Talk 6 | Vanessa Las Heras | School of Microbiology, Cork, Ireland, APC Microbiome Ireland, Cork, Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

A high fat diet influences host susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection in a murine disease model

Invited Talk 2 | Chris Creevey | Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Identifying genomic signatures of niche specialisation in the rumen microbiome

Offered Talk 7 | Rosalind Gilbert | Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia | Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Phage genome sequences shed light on phage:host interactions occurring in the rumen microbiome

Offered Talk 8 | Rafael Muñoz-Tamayo | UMR Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 75005, Paris, France, Paris, France

Rumen methanogens: functionally similar, thermodynamically different. A modelling approach

Offered Talk 9 | Kan Gao | Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Large intestinal infusion of antibiotics or corn starch induced alterations of large intestinal microbiota, aromatic amino acid profile, and expression of neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus of piglets

Offered Talk 10 | Itzhak Mizrahi | Department of Life Sciences & the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, 7 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Microbiome niche modification drives diurnal rumen community assembly, overpowering individual variability and diet effects

Buses to depart the AECC to take delegates to The Beach Ballroom for the civic reception & ceilidh. Buses will pick up delegates at The Douglas Hotel in the City Centre on the way.

Please ensure you arrive 10 minutes early prior to the bus departing.

Aberdeen City Council Hosted Drinks Reception & Ceilidh with stovies at 21.00 | Beach Ballroom

Invited Talk 3 | Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello | Rutgers University School of Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, New Jersey, USA

Microbial Anthropology

Offered Talk 11 | Janelle Fouhse | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Therapeutic antibiotic use during neonatal development triggers a short-term bloom of Enterobacteriaceae altering long-term innate immune response to Salmonella challenge

Offered Talk 12 | Wayne Young | AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Riddet Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, The High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge, Auckland, New Zealand

Analysis of co-abundant genera suggests carbohydrate metabolism is altered in the faecal microbiome of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Offered Talk 13 | Laureen Crouzet | UMR UCA-INRA MEDIS, Saint Genes Champanelle, France, 4DPharma plc., Leeds, United Kingdom

A new bacterial therapy for treating visceral hypersensitivity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients, based on gut microbiota and host response modulation

Offered Talk 14 | Leticia Abecia | CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Spain

Mitochondrial modulator MCJ exert a protective role in mice experimental colitis through the control of microbial community

Offered Talk 15 | Prerna Bhalla | Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences building, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Silver nanoparticle (AgNP) mediated oxidative stress enhances anticancer metabolite productivity in gut microbe

Offered Talk 16 | Fabiana Hoffmann Sarda | School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The role of resistant starch on diabetic chronic kidney disease patients: gut microbiome and metabolic profile

Invited Talk 5 | Martin Blaser | New York University Langone Medical Centre, New York, USA

Communicating Science- On Writing a Popular Science Book

Invited Talk 6 | Paul Richards | Microbiology Society, London, United Kingdom

Communicating Science to Policy Makers

Invited Talk 7 | Eleanor Bradford | Spey Communications, Moray, United Kingdom (formerly Head of Communications at University of Aberdeen)

Communicating Science- Journalist's Point of View

Open Q & A Session For Delegates*

Buses to depart the AECC to take delegates to The Chester Hotel for the conference dinner. Buses will pick up delegates at The Douglas Hotel in the City Centre on the way.

Please ensure you arrive 10 minutes early prior to the bus departing.

Invited Talk 8 | Emily Balskus | Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Deciphering the Human Microbiota using Chemistry

Offered Talk 17 | Ben Thomas | Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Computationally mining ruminal microbial communities to characterise, synthesise and test novel antibiotics using the AMPLY pipeline

Offered Talk 18 | Jerry Wells | University of Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands

Pathogen inhibition by the mammalian commensal Rothia nasimurium, producing an antibiotic ionophorein vivo

11.00-11.20

Offered Talk 19 | Jason Ridlon | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, USA

The desA and desB genes from Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704 encoded steroid-17,20-desmolase

Offered Talk 20 | Phillip Pope | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway

Decrypting Bessie's belly: a mechanistic understanding of ruminal lignocellulose deconstruction

Offered Talk 21 | Matthias Hess | University of California, Davis, CA, USA, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Untangling the highly efficient biomass-degrading machinery of anaerobic rumen fungi using metatranscriptomics and synthetic biology approaches

Invited Talk 9 | Closing Lecture by Harry Flint | University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Predicting the behaviour of complex gut microbial communities