Program
The diamond jubilee congress will follow the following program with a new format: Each workshop will begin with an invited plenary talk, followed by talks from invited mid- to early-career scientists and submitted abstracts selected for podium presentations.
Monday morning: Opening Session
- Workshop 1: 75th diamond jubilee: History of the gut function congress and the discovery of interspecies hydrogen transfer
- The workshop will be followed by the unveiling of a bronze historical marker commemorating the discovery of interspecies hydrogen transfer
Monday afternoon
- Workshop 2: Mechanistic microbiome insights into gut function and health
- Poster flash talks
- Bryant Memorial Lecture | Ruth Ley
Monday evening
- Reception and informal poster session
Tuesday morning
- Workshop 3: Advances in rumen biology
- Business meeting during the lunch break—all are welcome!
Tuesday afternoon
- Workshop 4: Small molecules – big messages
Tuesday evening
- Poster session and judging
- Social function at Riggs Brewery
Wednesday morning
- Workshop 5: The human microbiome/host-microbe interactions in health and disease
Wednesday afternoon
- Oral presentations from selected poster submissions
- Announcement of winners of the oral and poster presentations
- Invitation to the 2028 Congress on Gastrointestinal Function
The confirmed plenary speakers are as follows:
- Ruth Ley, Microbiome Science, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen | Tübingen, Germany
Ley will deliver the Bryant Memorial Lecture. Her research interests include the ecology and evolution of human gut flora and its effects on health. Of particular interest are the strategies of bacteria to adapt to the human host.
- Chris Greening, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University | Melbourne, Australia
Greening’s lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand biological processes at all levels of organization, from enzymatic mechanisms to ecosystem importance, as they relate to greenhouse gases, especially hydrogen.
- Andrew Moeller, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
Moeller is an evolutionary biologist interested in symbiosis, particularly host–microbe relationships. His lab studies the genetic bases of the intimate partnerships between host and microbial lineages and how microorganisms shaped host adaptation and diversification.
- Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Diagnostic and Research Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz| Graz, Austria
The main aim of Moissl-Eichinger’s research program is to explore the human microbiome and its interactions with environmental microbiomes.
- Harris Wang, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center | New York, New York, United States of America
Wang’s lab uses synthetic and systems biology approaches to design and build cells with new capabilities, leveraging both engineering and evolutionary principles.
- Sean Gibbons, Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Gibbons’ lab is interested in how evolving communities maintain stability and functional resilience in the face of environmental fluctuations.
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