Scientific Program

Speakers

An international faculty spanning the whole arc of microbiome science.

Faculty

Confirmed speakers

An international faculty spanning basic science, computational biology and clinical practice.

Mani Arumugam

Associate Professor and Group Leader at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research

Denmark

Francesco Asnicar

Tenure-track researcher at the Department CIBIO at the University of Trento

Italy

Alexandra Baușic

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Romania

Randi J. Bertelsen

Randi J. Bertelsen is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bergen and affiliated

Norway

Petter Brodin

Professor of Pediatric immunology at Karolinska Institutet & Imperial College London

UK

Henrik Bjørn Nielsen

Chief Scientific Officer at Cmbio

Denmark

Patrice Cani

Full Professor of Physiology, Metabolism & Nutrition, UCLouvain

Belgium

Maria Carmen Collado

Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology-Spanish National Research Council

Spain

John Cryan

Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork

Ireland

Lisa Derosa

Co-director and Clinical Coordinator at Gustave Roussy

France

Rochellys Diaz Heijtz

Principal Investigator and Associate Professor (Docent) at Karolinska Institutet

Sweden

Miroslav Dinić

Associate Research Professor in the Probiotics and Host-Microbiota Interaction Group at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), University of Belgrade

Serbia

Dan L. Dumitrașcu

Professor emeritus at UMF “Iuliu Hațieganu” Cluj-Napoca

Romania

Jingyuan Fu

Full professor of systems medicine in the University Medical Centre Groningen

The Netherlands

Sergio George

Assistant Professor, University of Chile

Chile

Belen Gimeno-Molina

Research Associate at the Sykes Laboratory, Imperial College London

UK

Cristian Grisales-Vargas

University Medical Centre Groningen

The Netherlands

Colin Hill

Professor in the School of Microbiology at University College Cork

Ireland

Gianluca Ianiro

Gastroenterologist & adjunct professor at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome

Italy

Valeriia Ivanova

Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Liza Konnikova

Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine and Principal Investigator at Konnikova Lab

USA

Omry Koren

Head of the microbiome research laboratory at Azrieli Faculty of Medicine Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Leon Mijić

University of Birmingham

UK

Vladimir Milivojevic

Clinical Assistant at the Department of InternalMedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

Serbia

Selvasankar Murugesan

Staff Scientist at Sidra Medicine, Doha

Qatar

Yishay Pinto

Researcher and principal investigator of the Pinto Lab in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Dušan Radojević

Assistant Research Professor in the Probiotics and Host-Microbiota Interaction Group at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), University of Belgrade

Serbia

Liviana Ricci

Researcher in the Computational Metagenomics Lab at the University of Trento

Italy

Trishla Sinha

Clinician–researcher at University Medical Center Groningen

The Netherlands

Sondra Turjeman

Researcher and lab manager at Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Riccardo Vanini

University of Trento

Italy

Rinse Weersma

Gastroenterologist, Full Professor at University of Groningen

The Netherlands

Ina Schuppe Koistinen

Biomedical scientist and biotech entrepreneur, Karolinska Institutet

Sweden

Nicola Segata

Principal Investigator in the CIBIO Department at the University of Trento and at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan

Italy

Michael Silverman

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania & Attending Physician AT Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

USA

Tim Spector

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

UK

Mireia Valles Colomer

Principal Investigator at the Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) department of the University Pompeu Fabra

Spain

Ekaterina Voroshilina

Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnostics Ural State Medical University

Russian Federation

Nissan Yissachar

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Alexandra Zhernakova

Professor at the Department of Genetics, University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen

The Netherlands
How the programme is built

How the faculty is built

The MBTL 2027 faculty is assembled by the Organising Committee with the Advisory Board, and is built to cover the full lifespan the conference is named for, from the maternal microbiome and infant colonisation through to the microbial signatures of ageing.

Confirmed speakers are published here on a rolling basis as invitations are accepted. Follow the MBTL Community for announcements between now and the meeting.

Nominate

Know someone who should be on this stage?

The committee accepts speaker nominations year-round, and actively looks for voices outside the usual circuit. Tell us who you would want to hear and why.

Want to present?

Abstract submission opens 15 January 2027 for oral presentations, posters and case studies.