* All times are based on Canada/Eastern EST.

    • Thursday

    Oct. 24

    Friday

    Oct. 25

    8:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

    Registration and Continental Breakfast

    Phoenix catering

    9:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    9:00 AM - 9:10 AM EDT

    Opening remarks

    Irah King, Director, McGill Centre for Microbiome Research

    9:15 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    9:15 AM - 10:15 AM EDT

    Gut microbiota in IBD; from description to intervention

    Keynote conference Professor Harry Sokol, Saint-Antoine hospital

    10:15 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EDT

    Microbiomes in Space: Unveiling the Invisible Worlds of the ISS and Beyond

    Emmanuel Gonzalez, McGill University

    10:45 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    10:45 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

    Coffee Break with sponsors booths

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    11:30 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

    From so simple a beginning: evolutionary diversification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis airway

    Rees Kassen, McGill University

    12:00 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT

    Host-microbiota interactions in long COVID: from immune dysregulation to end-organ damage

    Emilia Liana Falcone, IRCM

    12:30 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    12:30 PM - 1:45 PM EDT

    Lunch break

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    1:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    1:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

    Students talks

    4 presentations, 15 min each

    3:00 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

    Coffee break with sponsors booths

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    3:30 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

    Roundtable with international experts

    Colin Hill, University College Cork / Iliyan Iliev, Weill Cornell Medicine / Rana Samadfam, Charles River Laboratory / Tami Lieberman, MIT / Harry Sokol, Saint-Antoine Hospital

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