Registration & coffee/tea

Opening by Patricia Malarkey (DSM Chief Science Officer) and Adriana Carvalho de Souza (NMC Board, DSM)

Ghislain Schyns (DSM Switzerland) DSM’s microbiome development and synbiotics 

Frank Xu (DSM USA) DSM’s metabolomics and digital development for microbiome research

Coffee break

Thomas Hankemeier (Leiden University, NL) Metabolomics to study the role of the gut microbiome

Flash presentation Alessio Ciurli (LUMC, NL) “Temporally and spatially resolved biochemical profiling of the oral cavity" followed by Discussion on The potential of metabolomics in microbiome research led by Adriana Carvalho de Souza (DSM, morning Chair) and then lunch break (12.30)

Jonathan Swann (Imperial College London, UK) Characterizing the biomolecular reach of the intestinal microbiota within the holobiont using metabolomics

Henrik Munch Roager (University of Copenhagen, DK) Diet and the gut microbiota: moving beyond composition to activity

Coffee break

Sebastian Tims (Danone Nutricia Research, NL) Early-life fecal microbiome and metabolome dynamics in response to an intervention with infant formula containing specific prebiotics and postbiotics

Discussion on The desired future developments in (metabol)omics to better answer biological questions in microbiome research moderated by Guus Roesselers, (Danone Nutricia, afternoon Chair)

Closing lecture: John Rawls (Duke University of Medicine, USA) Deciphering the chemical language of host-microbe symbiosis in the vertebrate intestine

Drinks