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 29 speakers, and 3 discussion panels culminating in more than 1,800 minutes of solid intellectual fun!
Join us in the Pays de la Loire Nantes, France, May 19-21, 2020.
For any inquiries, please email thinkgastronauts@gmail.com. Registration opens 19 August 2019.
AGENDAMenu pour l’esprit et la digestion
| DAY I | ||
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| Amuse-bouche | ||
| Giles Yeo Cambridge University | Food genomics | |
| I. Sensing food | ||
| Alison Moore University of Glasgow Zachary Knight University of California, San Francisco Dragana Rogulja Harvard University | Gut feelings in culture Gut-brain nutrient sensing To sleep or to eat |
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| II. Gut nerves | ||
| Judith Eisen University of Oregon Ulrika Marlund Karolinska Institute Nick Spencer Flinders University Nilay Yapici Cornell University | Enteric neurons and the microbiome Enteric neuron development Extrinsic neurons of the colon Neurobiology of ingestion |
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| LUNCH | ||
| PANEL: | The Word of Science | Led by Caitlin Van der Weele Neuroscientist and Social Media Specialist |
| III. Biotechnologies | ||
| Matthias Meier University of Freiburg Róisín Owens University of Cambridge Mijo Simunovic Columbia University | Microfluidics Guts on a chip Early gastrulation and humans |
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| IV. Behavior | ||
| Kara Margolis Columbia University Samantha Solon-Biet University of Sydney Mauro Costa-Mattioli Baylor College Dana Small Yale University | Autism in the gut Diet and age Mood enhancing microbes The pleasure of food |
| DAY II | ||
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| V. Bioengineering | ||
| Nancy Allbritton UNC - Chapel Hill Carlotta Ronda Columbia University Antonio Scialdone Helmholtz Zentrum München | Microengineering the gut Multiplex Genome Engineering Math in plants |
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| PANEL: | The Business of Science | Led by Christof von Kalle CRO Sidra Medicine |
| VI. Disease | ||
| Monica Skarulis Hamad Medical Corporation Michele Neunlist INSERM Nantes Filipe De Vadder Institute Genomics Functional de Lyon Cheryl Nickerson Arizona State University | Obesity and the gut Parkinson’s in the gut Gut microbes and neurons Gut disease in space |
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| LUNCH PANEL: | The Fuel of Science | Led by Nandini Iyer Program Officer, US Air Force |
| VII. Gut and immunity | ||
| Layla Kamareddine Qatar University Ana Domingos Oxford University John Lukens University of Virgina Henrique Veiga-Fernandes Champalimaud Foundation | Host-pathogen interactions Neuroimmunology Microbiome-immune crosstalk Diet, immunity, and the gut |
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| VIII. Healing food | ||
| Amy Greeson Natural Discoveries Inc., NC Michael Huffman Kyoto University | Medicinal plants Self-medicating chimps |
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| Digestif | ||
| Charles Spence University of Oxford | The future of food |