Events

 

10:00 to 16:00 JST

June 5, 2021

Online Webinar

 

The Amazing Microbiomes: Microbes in Healthcare and Medicine

 

Seminar Objective:

Indigenous microbiota including bacteria may have a profound impact on human health and disease and may even be used as unique and specific treatments. In this seminar, four leading experts in the area of microbiome from Japan will provide fully cutting-edge information and insights on the subject.

 

 

Speaker: Masahira Hattori, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

 

 

Abstract: About tens of trillions of microorganisms of more than one thousand distinct species reside in the human body. This session will explain the ecology and function of the human microbiome based on the idea that a human is a superorganism.

 

 

Speaker: Yuumi Matsuoka-Nakamura, M.D., Ph. D. Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Cutaneous Immunology, Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center

 

 

Abstract: This session will outline the recent progress in research on the skin microbiome and will focus on Osaka University’s current studies that feature S.aureusreus in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis.

 

Speaker: Toshifumi Ohkusa, M.D., Ph. D.

Special Professor, Department of Microbiota Research, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine

 

 

Abstract: This session will summarise the relationship between gut microbiota and gastrointestinal diseases and describe new treatments that target gut bacteria.

 

Speaker: Tomoya YAMASHITA, M.D., Ph. D.

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,

Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

 

 

Abstract: Recent findings have revealed that commensal gut microbiota is associated with the onset and progression of various diseases. The session will present results from studies in which the speaker was involved demonstrating the anti-inflammatory effects of the bacteria species Bacteroides vulgatus and Bactecteroides dorei as well as their potential to control arteriosclerosis.

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