Morning

8:00 am – opening comments
David H. Perlmutter, MD – Dean and Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs
Organizers – Brian Muegge, Peter Turnbaugh,
Meng Wu

8:15 am – session 1 – “Exploring gut microbial ecology and function”

• Ruth Ley (Max Planck Institute for Biology) – “How human is the human microbiome”
• Peter Turnbaugh (University of California,
  San Francisco) – “Saying BHB-ye bye to autoimmunity”
• John F. Rawls (Duke University) – “Microbial contributions to digestive health – perspectives from your inner fish”

10:15 am – session 2 – “Gnotobiotic models,
mechanisms and translation”

• Lynn Bry (Harvard University) – “Uncovering the metabolic secrets of anaerobes for therapeutic applications”
• Lora Hooper (University of Texas, Southwestern) – “Regulation of metabolism and immunity by the microbiome”
• Fredrik Bäckhed (University of Gothenburg) – “From identification of a microbially
  produced metabolite to development
  of a potential novel treatment modality”

Afternoon

1:00 pm – session 3 – “Bacteroides as model symbionts and a paradise for glycobiologists”

• Justin Sonnenburg (Stanford University) – “Studying gut bacterial dietary habits:
  Getting into a sticky situation”
• Eric Martens (University of Michigan) – “Mucus-degrading human gut bacteria
  in inflammatory bowel disease”
• Andy Goodman (Yale University) – “Microbiome dynamics during infection”
• Bernard Henrissat (Technical University of Denmark) – “Recent insights into carbohydrate-active enzymes of the microbiome”
  
  3:15 pm – session 4 – “The microbiome, global health & interdisciplinary science”

• Tahmeed Ahmed (International Centre for
  Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)) – “Going farther, together: Views on a Global Partnership”
• Vanessa Ridaura (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) – “Catalyzing change: Collaborative efforts to improve infant health through microbiome and undernutrition solutions”
• Marc Lecuit Institut Pasteur) – “How listeria outsmarts its host”
• Arjun Raman (University of Chicago) – “Statistical design of functional microbiomes”

4:45 pm – reflection

• Caroline Ash (Senior Editor, Science)
• Jeffrey Gordon (WashU Pathology & Immunology)