Gut microbiota development from infancy to old age: Disease associations and potential health promoting interventions
When: 21-22 September, 2023
Where: Quality Hotel™ View, Malmö, Sweden
Guest editors: Maria Jenmalm, Lena Öhman and Ida Schoultz
The event is organized in collaboration with the Journal of Internal Medicine. There will be a poster session and a reduced fee for participation for young researchers (750 SEK) including all meals. More information about registration and abstract submission (deadline June 16th) here.
Get a comprehensive theoretical overview of both fundamental and applied phage biology, complemented with a set of experimental skills that would allow introducing phage techniques directly into an ongoing research programme.
When: April 24-28, 2023
Where: Biology Department, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Suggested ECTS: 1.5 ECTS (must be discussed with your home university)
For all PhD students and postdocs who want to improve their skills in drawing images/figures for scientific posters, presentations, and publications.
At the end you will have produced a graphical abstract that describes your own research and a scientific poster using the principles of graphic design that you have learned during the course.
The second NDPIA course on microbiota and health was held during the week of 14-18 of November 2022. Following the first microbiota and health course which was held online in 2020, the NDPIA organization was happy to be able to arrange this course at AspenäsHerrgård in Lerum, Gothenburg.
Group photo of the participants and organizers of Microbiota and Health 2024. The photo was taken by personnel at Aspenäs Herrgård.
Microbiota are diverse microbial communities associated with multicellular organisms. These communities of microbes and their genomes, the microbiome, affect physiological processes of the host. Understanding how microbiota interact with a host is critical to understand the host biology and host susceptibility to infectious and chronic diseases and host responses to drugs.
We had twenty-two national and international lecturers sharing their expertise in the microbiome field, and dedicating time for fruitful discussions with course participants. This course aims to provide a broad knowledge considering different research fields within the microbiome, while also providing details about each topic and their cutting-edge research. Topics covered were microbiota diversity, methods used to study microbiomes, microbiota associated with hosts, such as humans and animals, the role of microbiota in human health and disease, effects of diet and age on the microbiota, interactions of the microbiota with the immune system, mucins and drugs, host-bacterial mutualism and development of symbioses, collaboration and competition in the host microbiome, and present day trends on modifying the microbiota.
“The size and focus of the course were perfect! I particularly liked that a lot of time was allocated for discussions and questions, and plenty of time to discuss with everyone about their posters.”
-Anonymous participant
Lecture on “Introduction to microbiomes”, given by Björn Schröder, group leader at Umeå University. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.Lecture on “Collaboration and competition in host microbiomes”, given by Erik Bakkeren, postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford, UK. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.
The lectures were combined with poster sessions enabling the participants to present and discuss their own research with fellows and lecturers. In addition, free time was provided for, social activities, informal discussions and to build national and international scientific networks with participants and lecturers.
“Good organization of the course, great talks, great networking opportunities and I have several new ideas to apply into my own project!”
