Gut Microbiome and Mucosal or Systemic Dysfunction: Mechanisms, Clinical Manifestations and Interventions

In recent years medicine has witnessed an astonishing paradigm shift. For decades it was believed that for most diseases the individual risk was defined by the genetic make-up, potentially modified by the environment and lifestyle-factors. It has now emerged that the gut microbiome plays an equally important role for many gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal disorders.

This opens astonishing new avenues to understand and target disease mechanisms in particular in relation to immune mediated diseases but might be equally important for the prevention of disease. 

Thus the organisers Gerald Holtmann and Mark Morrison from Brisbane, Nicholas Talley from Newcastle, William Chey from Ann Arbor, and Peter Gibson from Melbourne in close collaboration with other experts in the field have developed a scientific program that brings together basic scientists and clinicians from many disciplines to define our current knowledge and define future directions that are relevant for the translation of this knowledge into clinical practice .   

On behalf of the scientific committee
Prof . Gerald Holtmann, Brisbane