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Gut, Oral, Skin, Vaginal microflora and human odours

This professional event will provide delegates with the last scientific advances in the field of human microflora and will help prospecting for new cosmetic, personal care, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products’ strategies.


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Timetable:

December 15: from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm Departure for the Coktail Dinner at 7:45 pm

December 16: from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm

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MICROBIOTA Program

DAY ONE


08H30: Registration

09H00: Welcome Address

Dr. Jean-Michel Pommet

Gate2Tech, France

SESSION 1: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE IN MICROBIAL POPULATION

09H15: Microbes Inside

Prof. Willem M. de Vos

University of Wageningen and Helsinki

10H15: MetaHIT, the European project on the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract

Dr. S. Dusko Ehrlich

National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France

11H00: Coffee break

SESSION 2: LATEST ADVANCES IN MICROFLORA IDENTIFICATION

11H30: The human intestinal microbiota: from basic science to clinical practice

Dr. Marie-France de La Cochetière

National Institute of Medical Research (INSERM) – Clinical Therapy & Infections Unit, France

12H15: Lunch

14H00: Barcoded pyrosequencing as a high-throughput method for comparative microbial ecology

Prof. Lars Engstrand

Dpt. of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control & Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

14H45: Pattern Recognition Methods for Profiling Microbial Communities

Prof. Richard Brereton

Centre for Chemometrics, University of Bristol, UK

15H30: Break

SESSION 3: NEW POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COSMETIC, THE PERSONAL CARE, THE PHARMACEUTICAL AND THE NUTRACEUTICAL INDUSTRY (PART 1)

16H00: Individual fingerprints in axillary volatiles and microbiota

Dr. Dustin Penn

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Academy of Sciences, Austria

16H45: Microbiological and Biochemical Origins of Human Body Odours

Dr. A. Gordon James

Unilever Research & Development, UK

17H30: END OF DAY 1

19H45: Departure for the Cocktail Diner


DAY 2


SESSION 3: PART 2

09H00: The human oral microbiota in health and disease

Prof. William Wade

King’s College London Dental Institute, UK

09h45: Microflora and next generation of probiotics for oral & skin health

Prof. Dr. Christine Lang

OrganoBalance GmbH, Germany

10H30: Break

11H00: Pre- and Probiotics for human skin

Prof. Dr. Jean Krutmann

Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany

11H45: Modelling the human skin microflora - laboratory and clinical approaches

Dr. Richard Bojar

Leeds Skin Center for Applied Research Ltd., UK

12H30: Lunch

14H00: Drivers, Passengers, and Train Wrecks: Microbial Ecology of the Human Vagina

Prof. Larry J. Forney, jointly with Dr. Catherine Davis

Respectively IBEST & Dpt. of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, USA; and The Procter & Gamble Company, USA

15H30: Development and application of the V-chip: vaginal flora chip

Dr. Frank H.J. Schuren

TNO Quality of Life, Microbial Genomics group, The Netherlands

16H15: Concluding Remarks

16H30: Coffee - End of Meeting

An event supported by
Microbiota 2009 - Unilever

The themes of the conference focus on the current advances in the research of human microbe population, their present and future role in maintaining health and preventing diseases with particular emphasis on evidence-based benefits in the following areas:

  • cosmetic
  • personal care
  • nutraceutical
  • pharmaceutical

GOLD SPONSOR

Microbiota 2009 - Procter et Gamble

Professional Association Partner

Microbiota 2009 - International & American Associations for Dental Research

Web-media partner

Microbiota 2009 - Bvents.com
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