Human Microbiome: Understanding Microbial Risks and Resilience

Programme

0915-0945
Dr. Anne Salonen, University of Helsinki:

Title to be announced

Dr. Salonen from the University of Helsinki studies the human microbiome, particularly how various factors, such as diet, affect the intestinal and female reproductive tract microbiota. She is the director and principal investigator of the Human Microbiome Research Program at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Medicine. She leads the Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) birth cohort study, which investigates how lifestyle and clinical practices affect a child's microbiota development.

0950-1020

Dr. Rebbecca A. Gladstone, University of Oslo:

"Understanding variation in invasive disease potential within bacterial populations"

Dr. Gladstone is a senior researcher at the University of Oslo, Dept of Biostatistics, affiliated with the Probabilistic Inference Laboratory. Her research focuses on microbial genomics and bacterial population genomics, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine impact and design, and genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens.

1025-1040

Gaute Hovde Bø, UiT:

"Dynamics of gut microbial metabolites and response to probiotics in early life"

1045-1100

Kenneth Lindstedt, University Hospital of North Norway (UNN): 

Title to be announced

Ahmed Bargheets PhD defence will take place in Cortex in the MH2 building on August 21 at 12:15, with the trial lecture on August 20 at 10:15. The trial lecture has the title: “Assessing the clinical relevance of ARGs and the burden of ESKAPE pathogen-drug combinations”.

Dissertation Title:

"Dynamics of Infant Gut Resistome and Mobilome: Impact of Gestational Age, Antibiotics, Probiotics, and Other Early-Life Factors"

Ahmed's dissertation, conducted within the Research group of Host-Microbe Interaction at the Department of Medical Biology, UiT, investigates the interplay between early-life factors and the development of the infant gut microbiome. His work explores the impact of gestational age, antibiotics, probiotics, and other factors on the infant gut's resistome (the collection of antibiotic resistance genes) and mobilome (the collection of mobile genetic elements). 

We look forward to your attendance and a lively academic discussion.

Sincerely,

Veronika Kuchařová Pettersen

Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor in Microbiome Research
Host-Microbe Interaction and Pediatric Infection Research Groups
Centre for New Antibacterial Strategies
Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science
UiT Norges arktiske universitet