Microbiota, the human microbiome / microflora event

Dr. Frank H.J. Schuren

Jean-Michel POMMET — 2009-09-14T07:41:55Z

Development and application of the V-chip: vaginal flora chip
Frank Schuren received his PhD at Groningen University in 1987 on the molecular biological analysis of fungal development. After a postdoc on genetic transformation systems in filamentous fungi at the same University and a postdoc at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland he joined TNO in 1996. At TNO he started the implementation of microarray technology in applied research. Together with his colleague Roy Montijn he developed a number (...) - Speakers

Prof. Larry J. Forney

Sophie — 2009-09-08T08:49:21Z

Drivers, passengers and train wrecks: microbial ecology of the human vagina
Professor Larry J. Forney received his PhD in Microbiology and Public Health from Michigan State University (USA) in 1982. Currently he is a Professor of Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Idaho. He is also the Director of the Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) which receives funding from the National Institutes of (...) - Speakers

Dr. Catherine Davis

Sophie — 2009-08-25T15:20:07Z

Microbial Ecology of the Human Vagina in Health (jointly with Professor Larry Forney)
Dr. Catherine Davis received her Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology & Immunology from Creighton University (1989) and M.S. in Pathology from Washington University-St. Louis. She joined The Procter & Gamble Company in 1995 and currently is a Principal Scientist in PS&RA supporting the Feminine Care/Health and Wellness business. Currently, she leads an international team of experts in research on Toxic Shock (...) - Speakers

Prof. Lars Engstrand

Sophie — 2009-07-15T13:37:50Z

Barcoded pyrosequencing as a high-throughput method for comparative microbial ecology.
Professor Lars Engstrand holds a donation position sponsored by the Swedish Institute for Infectious Control, at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He is head of Department of Bacteriology and has more than 25 years experience as a clinical bacteriologist. His research interest includes the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal infections. In a number of studies, population-based (...) - Speakers

Prof. Dr. Jean Krutmann

Sophie — 2009-06-29T07:36:27Z

Pre- and Probiotics for human skin
Jean Krutmann is Professor of Dermatology and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Institut fÃ¼r Umweltmedizinische Forschung (IUF) at the Heinrich-Heine-University DÃ¼sseldorf. His research is in the field of dermatotoxicology and immunodermatology within special emphasis on environmentally-induced skin diseases. He is author or co-author of more than 200 papers. He is the recipient of the International Arnold-Rikli-Award, the Albert Fleckenstein Award, (...) - Speakers

Dr. Marie-France de La Cochetiere

Sophie — 2009-06-05T12:57:25Z

The human intestinal microbiota: from basic science to clinical practice
Marie France de La Cochetiere is a chemist, she received her PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Bretagne Occidental . She is a permanent staff scientist (INSERM) since 1983. After working for several years at Rijkuniversiteit of Groningen the Netherlands, she started a research group with professor C Chastel in Brest. She joined professor G Potel research group in Nantes where she developed a co-research (...) - Speakers

Prof. William Wade

Jean-Michel POMMET — 2009-05-24T17:52:20Z

The human oral microbiota in health and disease
William Wadeâ€™s first degree was in Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, graduating in 1978. After obtaining a PhD in Oral Microbiology at the University of Wales, he was appointed to a lectureship there in 1987. He subsequently moved to the University of Bristol to take up a Senior Lectureship and then, in 1996, to Kingâ€™s College London, to take up his current posts of Professor of Oral Microbiology and Honorary Consultant (...) - Speakers

Dr. Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich

Jean-Michel POMMET — 2009-05-19T15:57:23Z

MetaHIT, the European project on the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract
Dr. S. Dusko Ehrlich received his Ph.D. from UniversitÃ© Paris VII in 1973 and was a research associate of Prof. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel prize winner, at Stanford University Medical school from 1973 till 1977. He joined INSERM as a Research Director in 1977, founded and led a research group at the CNRS Institute Jacques Monod at the University Paris VII until 1986. He joined INRA as a Research Director in 1986, (...) - Speakers

Prof. Willem M. de Vos

Sophie — 2009-04-02T08:56:00Z

Microbes Inside
Willem M. de Vos (1954) received a cum laude PhD degree at the State University of Groningen that was partly done at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, stayed for a post-doc at the NIRD (now IFR) in the UK, and became research manager at NIZO, the research institute of the Netherlands dairy industry. Here he established a research group on lactic acid bacteria and (at the age of 32) became the first Professor of Bacterial Genetics and later Chair of Microbiology at (...) - Speakers

Dr. Dustin Penn

Sophie — 2009-03-31T14:33:34Z

Individual fingerprints in axillary volatiles and microbiota
Dr Dustin J. Penn was educated in USA, graduating with a BSc in Biology in 1988 at the University of Central Oklahoma, a MS in Zoology at the University of Florida in 1992 and a PhD in Biology at the University of Utah in 1997. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship at the same place for 2 years where he then became Assistant Research Professor up to 2002. After nearly 15 years in the US, Dr Penn moved to Europe where he has been (...) - Speakers