Scientific Program

Preliminary Program

How the three days are shaped. Session titles and times are provisional.

Plenary lectures

Parallel symposia

Hands-on workshops

120+

Posters and case studies

Day one, Thursday

11 November 2027 · Foundations

A pre-conference workshop day followed by the opening plenary and welcome reception.

09:00-12:30

Pre-conference workshops (parallel tracks)

12:30-14:00

Registration and light lunch

14:00-14:30

Opening ceremony

14:30-15:30

Opening plenary: the state of the field

15:30-16:00

Refreshment break and exhibition

16:00-18:00

Symposium: the maternal microbiome and the first 1,000 days

18:00-20:00

Welcome reception and poster walk

Day two, Friday

12 November 2027 · Across the lifespan

09:00-10:30

Plenary: childhood, adolescence and the developing microbiome

10:30-11:00

Refreshment break

11:00-12:30

Parallel symposia: gut-brain axis · metabolic disease · immunity

12:30-14:00

Lunch, exhibition and guided poster sessions

14:00-15:30

Clinical case sessions

15:30-16:00

Refreshment break

16:00-17:30

Oral abstract sessions (parallel)

19:30 onwards

Conference dinner

Day three, Saturday

13 November 2027 · Into practice

09:00-10:30

Plenary: microbiome-directed therapeutics

10:30-11:00

Refreshment break

11:00-12:30

Symposium: healthy ageing and the microbiome of later life

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Late-breaking abstracts and case-study prize session

14:30-15:15

Closing plenary and awards

15:15-15:30

Close of conference

Workshop day

Hands-on, before the main programme

Six parallel workshops on 11 November cover study design, sequencing and bioinformatics, reading a microbiome paper critically, and building microbiome advice into a clinic. Places are limited and booked with your registration.

This preliminary programme is published to help you plan travel. Session titles, speakers and exact timings will change as the scientific programme is finalised; the definitive version is released approximately eight weeks before the meeting.