Event Dates (Pacific Time):
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 1:00 PM to 6:00 PMWith the Brain and the Microbiome national initiatives well underway, the time is ripe to explore the important intersection between them. Thanks to support from the Kavli Foundation, we are able to host this symposium to help define a joint Microbiome-Brain Initiative. The goal of this symposium is to bring together the Microbiome and Neuroscience sectors in hopes of bridging the Gut-Brain Axis.
Sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.
Event Sessions
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Fred Gage, Salk Institute
Host-microbe interactions in health and disease
Janelle Ayres, Salk Institute
Connecting our dynamic gut microbiomes to the brain
Rob Knight, University of California, San Diego
C. elegans gut-neuron signaling
Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute
Circadian rhythm in gut-brain axis
Satchidananda Panda, Salk Institute
Using metabolomics as a tool to reveal what microbes are doing for us and to us
Pieter Dorrestein, University of California, San Diego
Proving causality in the gut-brain axis using human-to-mouse bacterial transplant
Sarkis Mazmanian, Caltech