#HavingIMPACTT2026
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Erik Bakkeren (@erikbakkeren.bsky.social), Assistant Professor @ucalgarymed.bsky.social, who will speak about ecology within the human gut: using bacterial competition to understand and engineer the gut microbiome at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
This morning was full of inspiring talks and great research @HavingIMPACTT2026! We heard from Plenary Speakers - Drs. @erikbakkeren.bsky.social, Thierry Mallevaey, Maziar Divangahi and Aline Ignacio.
September 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Gretchen Diehl (@diehllab-mskcc.bsky.social), Member of the Immunology Program, and Catherine and Frederick R. Adler Chair for Junior Faculty @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, who will speak about Avoiding pyroptosis after E. coli inflammasome activation at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The final day of #HavingIMPACTT2026 is here! Our attendees were treated to talks from Drs. Saman Maleki and Luigi Nezi about Microbiome & Therapeutic Opportunities and Closing Keynote by Dr. Sarkis Mazmanian about Gut Microbiome and Parkinson's Disease!
September 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Meet Dr. van de Wouw (@mvdwouw.bsky.social) from Weston Family Foundation at #HavingIMPACTT2026 to learn about an exciting new funding opportunity: Microbiome Innovations for New Therapies (MINT), a $37mil funding program made to help move promising microbiome discoveries closer to real-world impact
September 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Arielle Elkrief, Associate Professor of Hemato-Oncology @crchum.bsky.social who will be speaking about microbiome modulating therapies, from bench-to-bedside at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
#HavingIMPACTT2026 Symposium is now under way! With an Opening Keynote from the luminary Dr. Jennifer Wargo of the @mdanderson.bsky.social, about "Targeting the microbiome to promote health and end cancer" our symposium is starting off strong!
September 28, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Meet Keynote Speaker Dr. Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology and Investigator at the Heritage Medical Research Institute @Caltech and Investigator, who will speak about The Gut Microbiome and Parkinson’s Disease at #HavingIMPACTT2026
July 31, 2026 at 5:48 PM
NOW OPEN! #HavingIMPACTT2026 Symposium Registration & Abstract Submissions.

Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/having-imp...

Submit your abstracts via the IMPACTT website: www.impactt-microbiome.ca/having-impac...
April 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Luigi Nezi, Tenured Group Leader of Microbiome and Antitumor Immunity, Department of Experimental Oncology at Istituto Europeo di Oncologia who will speak about The gut microbiome to overcome immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Pablo Romagnoli, Adjunct Investigator at CONICET and Professor at Instituto
Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba, who will speak about integrating diet, microbiome and metabolomics to evaluate malnutrition in the first trimester of pregnancy at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Early-bird registration and Abstract Submissions close tonight at midnight! See impactt-microbiome.ca/having-impactt
-2026-symposium/#registration
for more information! #HavingIMPACTT2026
July 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Meet Keynote Speaker Dr. Jennifer Wargo, Professor of Surgical Oncology & Genomic Medicine @mdanderson.bsky.social who will speak about targeting the microbiome to promote health and end cancer at #HavingIMPACTT2026
July 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Exciting news from #HavingIMPACTT2026 Symposium ~ our speaker lineup is nearly full! Check them out at www.impactt-microbiome.ca/having-impac...

Symposium Registration & Abstract Submissions open NEXT WEEK [link in bio]!
March 26, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Abstract Submission & Early Bird registration deadline EXTENDED to August 23, 2026! Register now for "Having IMPACTT Symposium 6" See www.impactt-microbiome.ca/having-impac... for more details!
#HavingIMPACTT2026
July 24, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Alberto Caminero, an Associate Professor @macdeptmed.bsky.social, who will speak about mechanisms by which microbes mediate food sensitivities at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Francesca Ronchi, Professor of Microbiology & Microbiome Research @bihatcharite.bsky.social in Berlin, who will speak about the effect of microbiota and diet on host pathophysiology at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Aline Ignacio, Assistant Professor @ucalgarymed.bsky.social who will be speaking about how Long-term reprogramming of monocytes by commensal bacteria improves host defence against infection at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Saman Maleki, translational immuno-oncology scientist @lhscri.bsky.social who will be speaking about Targeting the Gut Microbiome to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy and Mitigate Toxicity at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 20, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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September 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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September 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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September 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Meet Plenary Speaker Dr. Melody Smith, Assistant Professor of Medicine @StanfordMed, who will speak about The Role of the Gut Microbiome in CAR T Cell Therapy: Insights from Preclinical and Clinical Studies at #HavingIMPACTT2026
August 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The Calgary Metabolomics Research Facility is a proud Silver Sponsor of #HavingIMPACTT2026!

CMRF is Canada’s national hub for microbial metabolomics and lipidomics, featuring BSL-2 microbiology laboratories and advanced analytical LC-MS instrumentation. Learn more at calgarymetabolomics.org!
September 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM