Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC)
320 S. Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO
This year’s symposium, “Gut Feeling: Microbiome Effects on the Nervous
System in Health and Disease” will include presentations by several
world-renowned experts on the interplay between microbiome and CNS
development, nervous system homeostasis and neurologic disorders.
There will be an opportunity for junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows
and students to present a poster and win an award for best posters in
the postdoctoral fellow and student category.
Symposium Schedule
| 8:30 | Registration opens |
| 8:45 | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 | Opening Remarks – Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director of Center for Genome Sciences, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University |
| 9:10 | Introduction – Robyn Klein MD, PhD – Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of CNND, Washington University |
| 9:20 | Introduction to Speakers – Anne Cross, MD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Co-Director of CNND, Washington University |
| 9:30 | Josef Anrather, VMD Professor of Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York |
| 10:00 | Haydeh Payami, PhD, Lead Investigator of the NeuroGenetics Research Consortium Department of Neurology, University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | John Bienenstock, CM, MD (Hon), FRCP, FRCPC, FRSC Distinguished University Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Director, The Brain Body Institute (BBI), McMaster University |
| 11:15 | Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 11:45 | Ana Maria Arbeleaz, MD, MSCI, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes Research, Patient Oriented Research Unit, Washington University School of Medicine |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Poster Session |
| 3:00 | Poster awards |
You may contact Robyn Klein, MD, PhD, director of Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases at rklein@dom.wustl.edu.