The UNMC Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Nebraska Microbiome Research Interest Group will host “The Microbiome and the Brain-Gut Axis” on July 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Room 1004 or virtually via Zoom.
This mini-summit is free and open to the UNMC community.
Keynote speaker John Cryan, PhD, professor and chair of the University College Cork Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, will present “The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on the Brain and Behavior.”
Other scheduled speakers include:
- Jonathan Clayton, DVM, PhD, assistant professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Biology, assistant professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Food Science and Technology, will present “Disrupting the Balance: Using Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis to Study Gut-Brain Communication in a Nonhuman Primate Model System.”
- Jordan Hernandez, graduate assistant, UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, will present “Antibiotic-Induced Changes in Gut Microbial Function Interpreted Within the Context of the Gut-Brain Axis”
- Soonjo Hwang, MD, research director in the UNMC Department of Psychiatry, will present “Animal Mode of Mental Health Disorders by the RDoC Framework: New Research Direction for Brain-Gut Axis.”
- Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD, professor and vice chair of research in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, will present “Role of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Emerging and Remerging Viral Diseases.”
- Shilpa Buch, PhD, professor, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, will present “Drugs of Abuse and Microbial Dysbiosis.”