Microbiota in Health
Open session to health professionals and the general public
Hospital da Luz Lisboa, Auditório
12 July 2023 (Wednesday)
17h30 - 19h00
Millions of microbes live in our bodies – the microbiota. While a few microbes can cause us disease, most are not pathogenic, but influence our health. In these lectures world leaders in the study of the microbiota will discuss the importance of these microbes to our health and medicine.
Program
(The session will be in English and in-person - not broadcasted or recorded)
17h30 - Networking with Coffee/Tea and Snacks
17h50 - Welcome Address (Luís Teixeira)
18h00 - Martin Blaser "Health consequences of perturbing the early-life microbiome"
18h15 - Isabel Gordo " Drivers of antibiotic resistance and the effect of the microbiome"
18h30 - Rob Knight "The Microbiome in Cancer"
18h45 - Discussion
Free but mandatory registration!
