Harnessing the Microbiota

Microbiome Symposium
Harnessing the Microbiota to Fortify Health and Treat Disease

Date: 23 Sep 2023, Saturday | Time: 1330 - 1500 | Track Type: Symposium | Venue: L1-S1, Academia 

The microbiota is critical for health and when disrupted, causes disease. Furthermore, microbiota-dependent functions are readily modified with diet or probiotics. Microbiota engineering therefore represents a cost-effective approach to impact population health in Singapore. Here, we discuss recent advances in a) techniques to understand how the microbiota performs its functions, and b) efforts to harness the power of microbes to treat diseases such as cardiometabolic disease, infections and inflammatory conditions. We bring together four microbiome researchers from NTU-LKC, A*STAR and Duke University to share their insights from their research and from the field at large.

TOPIC 1:

Exploring the Impact of Diet-microbiota Interactions on Cardiometabolic Health

Speaker: Asst Prof Kazuyuki Kasahara

TOPIC 2:

Defining Microbiome-derived Therapies to Treat Human Diseases

Speaker: Asst Prof Neil K. Surana

TOPIC 3:

Microbial lipidomics: Novel Tools and Applications in Human Health and Disease

Speaker: Asst Prof Guan Xue Li

TOPIC 4:

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Microbiomes and Their Role in AMR Transmission

Speaker: Assoc Prof Niranjan Nagarajan

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