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Nicolás Rascovan (@nrascovan.bsky.social) will give a keynote talk on microbial paleogenomics and the deep history of human-associated microbes, with a focus on ancient pathogens in the Americas.
October 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Evgenia Dikareva will introduce the Dutch longitudinal LucKi Birth Cohort Study and discuss the COVID-19 pandemic impact on infant gut microbiome.
October 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Fitsum Weldegebreal Mlashu will introduce the EthiOMICS cohort, a population-based longitudinal study of pregnant women from eastern Ethiopia, & share the findings on prevalence, genotype, & associated factors of high-risk human papillomavirus.
October 1, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Peter Barton Hutt traces the legal history of "Medical Food" from an informal FDA category in the late 1960s to its formal definition in the 1988 Orphan Drug Amendments and current FDA labeling regulations.
Microbiome Modifiers and Cancer Immunotherapy - Seerave & MVIF Symposium
## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 25, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Selena Ahmed & Nile Nair introduce the "molecular language of food."

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is mapping the world's largest molecular atlas of edible biodiversity!
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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Jennifer McQuade reviews the state of evidence: diet as a modifiable lever on the microbiome, and immunotherapy outcomes.
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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 25, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Jen Wargo explores how gut & tumor microbes shape immunity, cancer biology & response to immunotherapy, and why fiber-fermenting bacteria + adequate dietary fiber are linked to better outcomes with checkpoint blockade.
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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Bertrand Routy reviews PPIs, SSRIs, benzodiazepines, OTC drugs, probiotics: how do they shape the microbiome, and what does that mean for clinical outcomes?

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August 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Rinse Weersma @weersmalab.bsky.social tackles a widely overlooked issue: Proton Pump Inhibitors, often prescribed without strong evidence & are increasingly linked to "oralization" of the gut microbiome.

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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 19, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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@jenswalter15.bsky.social asks: what can diet really do to the microbiome? Using an ecological lens, he separates taxonomic shifts from community-level constraints µbial function, arguing diet's real clinical impact.
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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 19, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Laurence Zitvogel (Institut Gustave Roussy 🇫🇷) will talk about how gut dysbiosis contributes to cancer immunotherapy resistance, reviewing microbial signatures and stool/blood biomarkers and more!
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## Seerave & MVIF Symposium: The Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy ## The gut microbiome is a modifiable determinant of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors, yet it remains one of the most underr...
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August 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM
#MeetTheSpeakers of #INS2026inDublin Prof. Shari Wade is Director of Research in the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at UC. Dr. Wade will present keynote “Reimagining pediatric neurorehabilitation: where we are and where we must go”
July 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
#MeetTheSpeakers of #INS2026inDublin @smartinezho1 Dr. Martinez-Horta is a neuropsychologist in the Movement Disorders Unit at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Dr. Martinez-Horta will present keynote “Neuropsychological phenotyping as a window into neuropathology in Huntington’s disease”
July 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM
#MeetTheSpeakers of #INS2026inDublin @Muireann_Irish Prof. Muireann Irish is an NHMRC Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney presenting keynote “Motivational disturbances in neurodegenerative disorders: from mechanisms to management”
July 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
#MeetTheSpeakers of #INS2026inDublin Prof. Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP-CN is a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Florida presenting keynote “The brain before the scalpel: a new era in perioperative care”
July 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Meet the speakers for our HITS Open Day on 11 July. ✨ We hope to see you there.

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July 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Anna Samarra will present their study on the evolution of the infant resistome during the first year of life and discuss how breastfeeding may modulate the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance.
May 29, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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@julesdeep.bsky.social will discuss microbiome from the deep ocean and beyond!
May 29, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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@joseecologist.bsky.social will discuss the river microbiome and their potential for degrading organic micropollutants in rivers!
May 26, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Samuel Degregori will present the Gut Microbiome Tree of Life (GMToL), a curated 16S amplicon dataset of 17,366 samples from 1,553 host species across 26 host classes from 284 studies, enabling analysis of large-scale evolutionary trends.
May 21, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Hongbin Liu will present the Human Gut Microbial Protein Structure Database and an alignment-free method, Dense Enzyme Retrieval.
May 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Selome Ruth will discuss their study on the microbiological quality of commonly used locally produced cosmetic products, including creams, lotions, and oils, to determine the implications of contamination.
May 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Georg Zeller will give a keynote talk "The Colorectal Cancer Microbiome: Exploring Its Value for Diagnosis and Prevention" and present unpublished data on gut microbiome from colorectal cancer patients.
May 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Suleiman Aminu will present a predictive genome-resolved biosurveillance framework with
metagenome assembly,
functional annotation,
ecological analysis &
ML–driven simulations
to investigate microbial dynamics across urban infrastructures.
May 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Netta Barak will present a standardized, community-driven benchmark called LAMPP: Live Assessment of Metagenomics-based tools for host Phenotype Prediction!
May 7, 2026 at 8:54 AM