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COEX Seoul, Korea / June 3-5, 2026
| Time | Program | ||
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| 9:00-9:30 | Opening Ceremony (Chair, GwangPyo Ko, Dusko Erhlich) | ||
| 9:30-10:20 | Plenary Lecture 1 Microbial metabolites and lipids important for human physiology and Autoimmunity Ramnik J. Xavier (Harvard Medical School, USA) |
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| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee break | ||
| Room | Grand Ballroom.101 | Auditorium | Grand Ballroom.105 |
| Theme | Beyond Bacteria: Expanding the Microbiome Landscape | AI-Empowered Precision Microbiome Platforms | Compartmental Microbiomes and Host Interaction |
| Session | S1. Functional Roles of the Virome and Archaeome | S4. Advances in microbiome community analysis (I) | S7. The Oral Gateway to Human Health |
| Chairs | Jin-Woo Bae (Kyung Hee University, Korea) |
GwangPyo Ko (Seoul National University, Korea) |
Baek il Kim (College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Korea) |
| 10:40-11:10 | TBD | TBD | Relationship between oral microbiota and oral and systemic health from an epidemiological perspective Toru Takeshita (University of Kyushu, Japan) |
| 11:10-11:40 | TBD | Alexandra Zhernakova (University Groningen, The Netherlands) |
Seung Hyun Han (Seoul National University, Korea) |
| 11:40-11:55 | Oral Presentation of selected posters | TBD | Chung-Min Kang (Yonsei University, Korea) |
| 11:55-12:10 | Oral Presentation of selected posters | ||
| 12:10-12:40 | TBD | Jeroen Raes (VIB, Belgium) | Hacking the Oral Microbiome: Probing and Reprogramming with Smart Nano-RoboticsHyun (Michel) Koo (University Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch/Poster/Exhibition | ||
| Luncheon 1 - workshop | Editorial Perspective and Open Dialogue | ||
| Session | S2. Unveiling the Mycobiome | S5. Digital Microbiome Innovation in Healthcare | S8. The Lung-Gut-Immune Axis |
| Chairs | Won Hee Jung (Chung-Ang University, Korea) |
Dusko Erhlich (University College London, UK) |
Hye Young Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) |
| 14:00-14:30 | How Bacteria–Fungal Crosskingdom Interactions Shape the Microbiome and Host Homeostasis Iliyan D. Iliev (Cornell, USA) | Junhua LI (BGI Research, China) | Celine Pattaroni (Monash University, Australia) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Won Hee Jung (Chung-Ang University, Korea) |
Federated learning for privacy-preserving, multi-center microbiome profiling Jan Baumbach (University of Hamburg, Germany) |
TBD |
| 15:00-15:15 | Oral Presentation of selected posters | A tale of two (or more) omics: Methods for integrating and making sense of multi-omic microbiome data Elhanan Borenstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel) |
Oral Presentation of selected posters |
| 15:15-15:30 | Oral Presentation of selected posters | Oral Presentation of selected posters | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Early-life mycobiome influences immune and metabolic development Marie-Claire Arrieta (University of Calgary, Canada) |
TBD | Regulation of early life immunity by the gut microbiota Melody Zeng (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA) |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| Theme | From Research to Translation | ||
| Session | S3. The Global Grants for Gut Health Symposium (Nature Awards) | S6. Host-microbe Interactions and Diseases (I) | S9. Microbial Ecology to Clinic |
| Chairs | Sponsorship Yakult | Liping Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Won Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) |
Hae Woong Choi (Korea University, Korea) |
| 16:15-16:45 | Souhaila Al Khodor (Sidra Medicine, Qatar) |
Smoking and Gut Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Hiroshi Ohno (RIKEN, Japan) | TBD |
| 16:45-17:15 | Megan Baldridge (Washington University in St. Louis of Medicine, USA) |
Jiyeon Si (KIST, Korea) | Hong-Wei Zhou (Southern Medical University, China) |
| 17:15-17:30 | Virginia Pedicord (University of Cambridge, UK) |
Changtao Jiang (Peking University, China) |
Oral Presentation of selected posters |
| 17:30-17:45 | Oral Presentation of selected posters | ||
| 17:45-18:15 | Nature Awards Ceremony | TBD | TBD |
| 18:15-20:00 | Welcome Reception / Poster View | ||
| Networking Dinner for Scientific Leaders | |||