Microbial Healthcare:

Life Healing Life

THE INAUGURAL MEETING WAS HELD: 11—12 July 2024
LOCATION: Customs House, Brisbane, Australia.

OVER 150 ATTENDEES

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We held our inaugural biennial meeting in 2024. We united specialists and specialties to drive the translation of new microbial therapies.

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Microbial healthcare:
life healing life.

Microbial solutions to diagnose, prevent and treat disease are transforming healthcare. New cellular therapies are being used to tackle cancer, infection, inflammation, obesity and degenerative diseases. Efficient development and delivery of new microbial healthcare, however, requires effective collaboration between complementary experts and disciplines along with the necessary support and vision from universities, government, and industry. This inaugural Microbial Healthcare Symposium provides an opportunity to bring together all of these interested parties to help drive the translation of new microbial healthcare. Please join us.

Speakers 2024

Professor Jeff Hasty

SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGIST
Professor in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering and Director of the Synthetic Biology Institute (UC San Diego).
Jeff is establishing a Centre of Microbial Healthcare in Brisbane as founding director. His major scientific achievements have been in the fields of Synthetic and Systems Biology, including making biology self-evidently beautiful and useful.

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Professor Rob Knight

COMPUTATIONAL MICROBIOLOGIST
Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation (UC San Diego), scientist and author. Rob’s work, writing and presentations have helped to explain how our microbes make us, well “us”.

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Professor Siddhartha Mukherjee

PHYSICIAN AND BIOLOGIST
Member of the National Academy of Medicine, oncologist, scientist, inventor and Pulitzer-prize winning author (Columbia University). Sid’s influential TED talk reimagines healthcare as “Cells not pills”

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Professor Rachel Allavena

Deputy Head of The School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.
Assoc. Prof. Jakob Begun

IBD Group leader, Mater Research and University of Queensland, Qld, Australia.
Professor Gabrielle Belz

Immunology, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Dr Seweryn Bialasiewicz

Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Dr Sam Costello

Managing director and co-founder of BiomeBank, BiomeBank, SA, Australia.
Dr Emily Hoedt

Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Dr Abi Marsh

Senior Clinical Dietitian specialising in Gastroenterology, Integrated Gut Health, QLD, Australia.
Professor Lars Nielsen

Systems and Synthetic Biologist
AIBN, University of Queensland,
QLD, Australia.
Professor John Prins

Executive director of Health Translation Queensland, QLD, Australia.
Assoc. Prof. Graham Radford-Smith

Integrated Gut Health, QIMR, and Universoty of Queensland, Qld, Australia
Dr Erin Shanahan

Microbiologist, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr Heidi Staudacher

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
Deakin University, WA, Australia.
Professor Nicholas Talley

Distinguished Laureate Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Professor Gene Tyson

Director of the QUT Centre for Microbiome research, QUT, QLD, Australia.
Dr Josephine Wright

Senior Research Fellow Gut Cancer Research Group, University of Adelaide & SAHMRI, SA, Australia.

Alyssa Chiang

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Dr Rebekah De Nys

Research Fellow, University of Adelaide & SAHMRI, SA, Australia.
Austin Doughty

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Shalni Kumar

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Julia Leeflang

Ph. D. candidate, University of Adelaide & SAHMRI, SA, Australia.
Katie O'Connor

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Camilo Rey-Bedón

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Paige Steppe

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.
Joanna Zhang

Ph. D. candidate, UC San Diego, CA, US.