To make us who we are, food must agree with the gut and the brain. This venue for scientific gut-brain dialogue is Gastronauts
When a behavioral neuroscientist sits with a synthetic biologist for breakfast, one can envision a witty probiotic designed to tame our cravings.
In Nantes, 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.
We have 6 sessions with 30 speakers culminating in more than 720 minutes of solid intellectual fun!
Join us in Nantes, France, May 11-13, 2021.
Organizers
| Maxime Mahe Université de Nantes Board Member & Host | Luis Saraiva Sidra Medicine Qatar Board Member | Irene Miguel-Aliaga Imperial College London Board Member |
| Róisín Owens University of Cambridge Board Member | Maya Kaelberer Duke University Board Member | Elise Loffet Université de Nantes Junior Fellow |
| Diego Bohórquez Duke University Board Member & Founder |
5 January 2021-UPDATE REGARDING COVID-19:
Because of COVID-19, the organizing committee made the difficult decision to move our Global Gastronauts Symposium to on online virtual venue.
However, this change has brought the opportunity to connect even further with our global community of scientists working on gut-brain matters. The virtual event will include six stellar scientific sessions of two hours each. And each hosted live from one of six global locations: Adelaide – Australia, Doha – Qatar, Durham – USA, London – UK, Nantes – France, and Porto Alegre – Brazil. This event will take place May 11-13, 2021.
Please save the date!!!
Registration will open February 1, 2021
Abstract submission
Once you are registered you can submit your abstract here. Abstracts should be up to 145 words. The abstract deadline is April 11, 2021. At this time, a select few abstracts will be selected for flash talks in addition to a poster presentation.
For any inquiries, please email thinkgastronauts@gmail.com.
AGENDA| May 11, 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Doha, Qatar | 11:00am, GMT+3 | |
| Marcello Costa Ana Domingos Roisin Owens Antonio Scialdone | History of enteric neurobiology Neuroimmunology Guts on a chip Math in plants: bioinformatics | Flinders University Oxford University Cambridge University Helmholtz München |
| PANEL: Scientific Entrepreneurship | led by Christof von Kalle | BIH-Charité Clinical Study |
| Nantes, France | 5:00pm, GMT+1 | |
| Judith Eisen John Lukens Alison Moore Carlotta Rhonda Giles Yeo | Gut neurons and microbes Microbiome-immune crosstalk Gut feelings in culture Engineering microbes Food Genomics | University of Oregon University of Virginia Western Sydney University Columbia University Cambridge University |
| May 12, 2021 | ||
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| London, United Kingdom | 3:00pm, GMT | |
| Marcelo Deitrich Layla Kamareddine Zachary Knight Ulrika Marklund Nilay Yapici | Ontology of feeding Host-pathogen interactions Gut-brain nutrient sensing Gut neuron development Neurobiology of ingestion | Yale University Qatar University UCSF Karolinska Institute Cornell University |
| Adelaide, Australia | 9:30am, GMT+10.5 | |
| Mauro Costa-Mattioli Amy Greeson Michael Huffman Cheryl Nickerson | Mood enhancing microbes Medicinal Plants Self-medicating chimps Gut disease in space | Baylor College Natural Discoveries Inc. Kyoto University Arizona State University |
| Panel: Funding | led by Nandini Iyer | Department of Defense |
| May 13, 2021 | ||
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| Durham, United States | 10:00am, GMT-5 | |
| Nancy Allbritton Dana Small Filipe de Vadder Henrique Veiga-Fernandes | Microengineering the gut The pleasure of food Gut microbes and neurons Diet, immunity, and the gut | University of Washington Yale University Genomics Institute Lyon Champalimaud |
| PANEL: Science Communication | Led by Caitlin Vander Weele | Neuroscientist and Social Media Specialist |
| Porto Alegre, Brazil | 2:00pm, GMT-3 | |
| Kara Margolis Matthias Meier Michel Neunlist Dragana Rogulja Charles Spence | Autism in the gut Microfluidics Parkinson's in the gut To sleep, or to eat The future of food | Columbia University University of Freiburg INSERM Nantes Harvard University Oxford University |
