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 8 sessions with 30 speakers, and 3 discussion panels culminating in more than 1,800 minutes of solid intellectual fun!
Join us in Nantes, France, May 19-21, 2020.
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 |
REGISTER HERE!
Registration fee will be $145 for students and $345 for non-students. For abstract submission guidelines, please use up to 145 words. For any inquiries, please email thinkgastronauts@gmail.com.
AGENDAMenu pour l’esprit et la digestion
| May 19, 2020 | ||
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| Arrival | ||
| Registration and Welcome Reception |
| May 20, 2020 | ||
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| Amuse-bouche | ||
| Giles Yeo | Food genomics | Cambridge University |
| I. Sensing food | ||
| Alison Moore Marcello Costa Zachary Knight Dragana Rogulja | Gut feelings in culture History of enteric neurobiology Gut-brain nutrient sensing To sleep or to eat | Western Sydney University Flinders University UCSF Harvard University |
| II. Gut nerves | ||
| Judith Eisen Ulrika Marklund Nick Spencer Nilay Yapici | Gut neurons and microbes Gut neurons development Visceral sensing Neurobiology of ingestion | University of Oregon Karolinska Institute Flinders University Cornell University |
| PANEL: Funding | Led by Nandini Iyer | Program Officer DoD Global Research |
| III. Biotechnologies | ||
| Matthias Meier Róisín Owens Mijo Simunovic | Microfluidics Guts on a chip Gastrulation | University of Freiburg University of Cambridge Columbia University |
| IV. Behavior | ||
| Kara Margolis Samantha Solon-Biet Mauro Costa-Mattioli Dana Small | Autism in the gut Diet and age Mood enhancing microbes The pleasure of food | Columbia University University of Sydney Baylor College Yale University |
| May 21, 2020 | ||
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| V. Bioengineering | ||
| Nancy Allbritton Carlotta Ronda Antonio Scialdone | Microengineering the gut Engineering microbes Math in plants and the power of bioinformatics | UNC - Chapel Hill Columbia University Helmholtz München |
| PANEL: Scientific Entrepreneurship | Led by Christof von Kalle | CRO Sidra Medicine |
| VI. Disease | ||
| Monica Skarulis Michele Neunlist Filipe De Vadder Cheryl Nickerson | Obesity and the gut Parkinson’s in the gut Gut microbes and neurons Gut disease in space | Hamad Medical Corp. INSERM Nantes Genomics Institute Lyon Arizona State University |
| PANEL: The future of Sci Com | Led by Caitlin Van der Weele | Neuroscientist and Social Media Specialist |
| VII. Neuroimmunology | ||
| Layla Kamareddine Ana Domingos John Lukens Henrique Veiga-Fernandes | Host-pathogen interactions Neuroimmunology Microbiome-immune crosstalk Diet, immunity, and the gut | Qatar University University of Oxford University of Virgina Champalimaud |
| VIII. Healing plants | ||
| Amy Greeson Michael Huffman | Medicinal plants Self-medicating chimps | Natural Discoveries Inc. Kyoto University |
| Digestif | ||
| Charles Spence | The future of food | University of Oxford |
| May 22, 2020 | ||
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| Departure |
Housed in a beautifully renovated neoclassical courthouse, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Nantes (6 place Aristide Briand 44000 Nantes France) will be the venue for Gastronauts Nantes 2020.