To make us who we are, food must agree with the gut and the brain. This venue for scientific gut-brain dialogue is Gastronauts
Thank you for making Gastronauts Global 2021 such an amazing event!!
When a behavioral neuroscientist sits with a synthetic biologist for breakfast, one can envision a witty probiotic designed to tame our cravings.
At our Global event, the table will be served with fine ideas carefully nourished in laboratories around the world. Guts in space, mind bending gut surgery, guts on a chip, and self-medicating chimps are just a few of the topics to be delivered by our carefully curated list of scientists.
This virtual event will include six stellar scientific sessions of two hours each with a total of 30 speakers culminating in more than 720 minutes of solid intellectual fun!
Each session will be hosted live from one of six global locations: Adelaide – Australia, Doha – Qatar, Durham – USA, London – UK, Nantes – France, and Porto Alegre – Brazil.
Local Hosts & Organizers
| Luis Saraiva Sidra Medicine Qatar Doha Host | Maxime Mahe Université de Nantes Nantes Host | Irene Miguel-Aliaga Imperial College London London Host |
| Nick Spencer Flinders University Adelaide Host | Maya Kaelberer Duke University Durham Host | Eduardo Zimmer Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Host |
| Diego Bohórquez Duke University Board Member & Founder |
For any inquiries, please email [email protected].
AGENDA| May 11, 2021 | ||
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| Doha, Qatar | 10:00am, AST (UTC+3) | |
| Marcello Costa Alyce Martin Antonio Scialdone Ana Domingos | History of enteric neurobiology Enterochromaffin cell biology Spatial transcriptomics Fat innervation | Flinders University Flinders University Helmholtz München Oxford University |
| PANEL: Scientific Entrepreneurship | Christof von Kalle Harry Knot Steve Harvey | BIH-Charité TSE CEO, Camena Bioscience |
| Nantes, France | 5:00pm, CEST, Paris local time (UTC+2) | |
| Judith Eisen Roisin Owens John Lukens Carlotta Ronda Giles Yeo | Brain neurons and microbes Guts on a chip Microbiome-immune crosstalk Engineering microbes Nutrigenomics | University of Oregon Cambridge University University of Virginia Columbia University Cambridge University |
| May 12, 2021 | ||
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| London, United Kingdom | 3:00pm, BST (UTC+1) | |
| Ulrika Marklund Layla Kamareddine Julián Otero Nilay Yapici Ruslan Medzhitov | Gut neuron development Host-pathogen interactions Special Chef Event Neurobiology of ingestion Food allergies | Karolinska Institute Qatar University Mugaritz Cornell University Yale University |
| May 13, 2021 | ||
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| Adelaide, Australia | 7:30am, ACST (UTC+9.5) | |
| Marcelo Dietrich Michael Huffman Cheryl Nickerson Mauro Costa-Mattioli | Ontogeny of feeding Self-medicating chimps Gut disease in space Mood enhancing microbes | Yale University Kyoto University Arizona State University Baylor College |
| Panel: Funding | Nandini Iyer Nelson Spruston Wen Chen | Department of Defense Janelia NIH-NCCIH |
| Durham, United States | 10:00am, EDT (UTC-4) | |
| Nancy Allbritton Filipe De Vadder Henrique Veiga-Fernandes Dana Small | Microengineering the gut Gut microbes and neurons Diet, immunity, and the gut The pleasure of food | University of Washington IGFL Lyon Champalimaud Yale University |
| PANEL: Science Communication | Caitlin Vander Weele Gabi Serrato Marks Sarafina Nance | CEO, Stellate Communications Science/ writing/ digital media Astrophysicist & Women's Health Advocate |
| Porto Alegre, Brazil | 1:00pm, BRT (UTC-3) | |
| Kara Margolis Matthias Meier Michel Neunlist Dragana Rogulja Charles Spence | Serotonin and the gut Exocrine pancreas on a chip Parkinson's in the gut To sleep, or to eat The future of food | Columbia University Helmholtz München INSERM Nantes Harvard University Oxford University |
Virtual Venue
Our virtual symposium will be held through the online platform gather.town.
Gather Town is a web-meeting software like Zoom or Skype, but with the added ability to see a 2-dimensional space in which you and others are occupying. In gather town, you will be able to move around and interact with other participants based on your locations in the room, just like real life. Users easily start and end side conversations and chats, or return to a main speaker just as at a real-world conference or other gathering. Rather than being moved to a Zoom breakout room, in gather town, you can simply walk your online-self to tables and chairs, sit down, and start a conversation.
New to gather.town? Watch this demo video:
