Gut Microbiome-Brain Axis: Early Career Researcher Meeting 2022

Proteintech's first ever early career researcher (ECR) mini-symposium on the gut microbiome-brain axis in disease


Our keynote speaker:

Dr. Eran Blacher, Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and winner of the 2021 NOSTER and Science prize
Talk Title: Our Gut Microbiome in Neurological Health and Disease

ECR Speakers:

Dr. Arashdeep Singh, University of Pennsylvania 
Talk title: Diet-Gut Microbiome-Brain Axis in Obesity

Dr. Katie Guzzetta, ETH Zurich
Talk title: The Gut Microbiota: A Novel Potential Target to Combat Aging-Related Cognitive Decline

Dr. Marie Hanscom, Michigan State University
Talk title: Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis in Traumatic Brain Injury

Katherine Meckel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Talk title: Microbiome-derived short-chain fatty acids modulate cocaine-seeking behaviors and transcriptional control in a rat model of cocaine addiction

Event Chair and Moderator:

Dr. Sierra Simpson
CEO and founder of BrilliantBiome