Speaker articles
Take a look at what some of our Host-microbiome dynamics speakers have published recently and chat with them about their work in Bruges, Belgium.
Keynote speakers
Yasmine Belkaid, Institut Pasteur, France
Cell Press journal: Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes promote lactogenesis and offspring fitness
Skin autonomous antibody production regulates host–microbiota interactions
Sexual dimorphism in skin immunity is mediated by an androgen-ILC2-dendritic cell axis
Michael Fischbach, Stanford University, USA
Discovery and engineering of the antibody response to a prominent skin commensal
Mapping the T cell repertoire to a complex gut bacterial community
Session 1 speakers: Microbial cross-talk and community assembly
Kat Coyte, The Coyte Lab, University of Manchester, UK
Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems
Reactivity of complex communities can be more important than stability
Kevin Foster, University of Oxford, UK
Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking
Horizontal gene transfer of molecular weapons can reshape bacterial competition
Benjamin H Good, Stanford University, USA
Cell Press journal: Unraveling the tempo and mode of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria
Evolution of evolvability in rapidly adapting populations
Session 2 speakers: Host-microbial communication
Lindsay Hall, University of Birmingham, UK
Ivaylo Ivanov, Columbia University, USA
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Context-dependent role of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in mucosal protection
Cell Press, Immunity: Intestinal microbiota-specific Th17 cells possess regulatory properties and suppress effector T cells via c-MAF and IL-10
Cell Press, Cell: Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome
Susan Lynch, University of California, San Francisco, USA
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases
Early-life nasal microbiota dynamics relate to longitudinal respiratory phenotypes in urban children
Gut microbial bile and amino acid metabolism associate with peanut oral immunotherapy failure
Noah Palm, Yale University, USA
A host-microbiota interactome reveals extensive transkingdom connectivity
Session 3 speakers: Immune-microbial interactions
Bana Jabri, The University of Chicago, USA
Epithelial IFNγ signalling and compartmentalized antigen presentation orchestrate gut immunity
Dennis Kaspar, Harvard Medical School, USA
Structure of gut microbial glycolipid modulates host inflammatory response
Gut complement induced by the microbiota combats pathogens and spares commensals
Gut microbial fatty acid isomerization modulates intraepithelial T cells
Andrew Macpherson, University of Bern, Switzerland
Cell Press journal: Boundaries and integration between microbiota, the nervous system, and immunity
Cell Press journal: Plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota
Tiffany Scharschmidt, Scharschmidt Lab, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Cell Press journal: Early life host-microbe interactions in skin
Session 4 speakers: Microbiota in health and disease
Michael Howitt, Stanford University, USA
Cell Press journal: The Lost Kingdom: Commensal protists in the gut microbiota
Tuft cells mediate commensal remodeling of the small intestinal antimicrobial landscape
Iliyan Iliev, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity
Session 5 speakers: Perturbing the system and therapeutic applications
Kenya Honda, Honda Lab, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control
The effects of oral microbiota on health
Sarah Leeber, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Cell Press journal: Diversity in women and their vaginal microbiota
Citizen science as an instrument for women’s health research
Randy Platt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Multimodal scanning of genetic variants with base and prime editing
Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq
Noninvasive assessment of gut function using transcriptional recording sentinel cells