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Sabine Costagliola, Ph.D., senior research associate FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Eliot Dow, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University

Terry Hwa, Ph.D., Presidential Chair Professor, University of California, San Diego

Johannes Larsch, graduate fellow, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

John Mekalanos, Ph.D., Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and chair, department of microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School

Surya Ganguli, Ph.D., assistant professor, Stanford University

Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology and professor of physics, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Beth Levine, M.D., professor of internal medicine and microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eileen White, Ph.D., associate director for basic science, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Christopher L. Henley, Ph.D., professor of physics, Cornell University

1:40 p.m.: Jun R. Huh, Ph.D., assistant professor, division of infectious diseases and immunology, department of medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Unexpected Roles of RORgamma-t and Pro-inflammatory Th17 Cells

2:10 p.m.: John F. Cryan, Ph.D., professor and chair, department of anatomy and neuroscience, University College Cork, Microbiota and Neurodevelopmental Windows: Implications for Brain Disorders

3:00 p.m.: Emeran A. Mayer, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, psychiatry and physiology; director, Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress, University of California, Los Angeles, Gut Microbiome Brain Communication in Humans

3:30 p.m.: Jane A. Foster, Ph.D., department of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences, McMaster University, Gut-Brain Axis: How the Microbiome Influences Behavior

4:00 p.m.: Christopher A. Lowry, Ph.D., associate professor, department of integrative physiology and center for neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, A Bioimmunomodulatory Approach for Prevention of Stress-Related Psychiatric Disorders and their Medical Comorbidity

4:50 p.m.: Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience; director, neuroscience center, University of Pennysylvania, Maternal Stress and the Vaginal Microbiome: Impacts on Neurodevelopment

5:20 p.m.: Elaine Y. Hsiao, Ph.D., senior research fellow, division of biology and biological engineering, California Institute of Technology, Microbiome-Gut Brain Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Hans-Hermann Schoene Distinguished Investigator and professor, department of genetics molecular biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., professor of oncology and pharmacology, Graduate Program in Immunology, John Hopkins University

Agnese Seminara, Ph.D., researcher, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

Keith Caldecott, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and deputy director, Genome Damage and Stability Center, University of Sussex

Camilla Sjögren, Ph.D., professor, department of cell and molecular biology, Karolinska Institutet