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The Department of Neurology and The Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior at The University of Chicago present the

The Brain-Gut Connection:Assessing the Evidence for

Microbial InfluenceKnapp Center for

Biomedical Discovery1st Floor Auditorium (1103), 900 E. 57th St.

9:30am: Opening Remarks by T. Conrad Gilliam PhD

Dean for Basic Science, UChicago Medicine

S t e e r i n g C o m m i t t e e :Christopher M. Gomez MD PhD

Albina Y. Surbis ProfessorDepartment of NeurologyThe University of Chicago

Jack Gilbert PhDFaculty Director, The Microbiome CenterProfessor, Department of SurgeryThe University of Chicago

Issam A. Awad MDJohn Harper Seeley Professor, SurgeryDirector, Neurovascular SurgeryDirector, Safadi Program of Excellence in Clinical and Translational NeuroscienceThe University of Chicago

Sangram S. Sisodia PhDThomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of MedicineDirector, Center for Molecular NeurobiologyDepartment of NeurobiologyThe University of Chicago

Jack Gilbert PhDUChicago Medicine

Overview: Gut-Brain Axis

Sergio Baranzini PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco

The Gut Microbiome and Neuroinflammation: Evidence from Multiple Sclerosis and EAE

Lloyd Kasper MDDartmouth College

Harvesting from the Gut Microbiome: The Role of Gut Symbionts in CNS Regulation

Sangram Sisodia PhDThe Eileen S. Trafimow Keynote SpeakerUChicago Medicine

Role of the Microbiome in Modulation of Amyloid Deposition and Neuroinflammation in Mouse Models of Abeta Amyloidosis

Ali Keshavarzian MDRush University

Microbiota Triggered Neuro-Inflammation and Dopamine Loss in Parkinson Disease

Karen McVey Neufeld PhDMcMaster University

Low-Dose Penicillin Exposure in Adolescent Mice: Implications for Psychiatric Disease

Derrick MacFabe MDMaastricht University

Short Chain Fatty Acids: Microbial Modulators of Metabolism, Mitochondria and Mind-Implications in Autism

Mark Kahn MDThe Safadi LecturerUniversity of Pennsylvania

Role of the Microbiome in Cerebral Cavernous Malformation

2018 Chicago Symposium on Translational Neuroscience

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