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Plenary Speakers Harvard Medical School Ramnik J. Xavier USA Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen Ruth E. Ley Germany Weizmann Institute of Science Eran Segal Israel
Invited Speakers Colin Hill Professor, School of Microbiology, University College Cork (UCC) Ireland Curtis Huttenhower Professor, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard University USA David Vauzour University of East Anglia United Kingdom Changtao Jiang Peking University China Megan Baldridge Washington University of Medicine USA Souhaila Al Khodor Sidra Medicine, Doha Qatar Sungwhan F. Oh Harvard Medical School USA Virginia Pedicord University of Cambridge United Kingdom Lanjuan Li Zhejiang University China Dusko Ehrlich University College London United Kingdom Elaine Hsiao UCLA USA Elhanan Borenstein Professor, Computer Science and Clinical Microbiology & Immunology, Tel Aviv University Israel Hiroshi Ohno Team Director, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Japan Hong-Wei Zhou Director, Microbiome Medicine Center, Southern Medical University (SMU) China Hyun Koo University of Pennsylvania USA Iliyan D. Iliev Associate Professor, Microbiology, Cornell University USA Ivaylo Ivanov Columbia University USA Jake Gratten The University of Queensland Australia Chung-Min Kang Yonsei University College of Dentistry Korea Jeroen Raes Professor, Medicine, KU Leuven Belgium Jingyuan Fu Professor, Systems Medicine, University of Groningen Netherlands Jun Yu Choh-Ming Li Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Kenya Honda Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University Japan Kiyoshi Takeda Professor, Immune Regulation, Osaka University Japan Makoto Arita RIKEN Japan Marie-Claire Arrieta University of Calgary Canada Matthew Wook Chang National University of Singapore Singapore Melody Zeng Weill Cornell Medicine USA Peter Turnbaugh UCSF USA Rob Knight UCSD USA Sarkis Mazmanian Professor, Microbiology, Caltech USA Seunghyun Han Seoul National University School of Dentistry Korea Toru Takeshita Kyushu University Japan Varun Aggarwala Jio Institute India Won Hee Jung Chung-Ang University Korea Junhua LI BGI Research China Jan Baumbach University of Hamburg Germany Roberto Flores-Munguia NIH USA Seth Rakoff-Nahoum Boston Children’s Hospital/HMS USA Wei-Kai Wu National Taiwan University Taiwan Paul Wilmes University Luxembourg Luxembourg Muhammad Hamid Zaman Howard Hughes Medical Institute USA Alexandra Zhernakova University Groningen Netherlands Talal Chatila Harvard Medical School USA Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University USA Athanasios Typas EMBL Germany Meng Wu Washington University in St. Louis of Medicine USA
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