Conference Chair
Mollie Roth, J.D.
Executive Director
The Microbiome Coalition (TMBC)
Speaking Faculty
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Chris Mason, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
- Weill Cornell Medicine
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Paul Giannasca, Ph.D.
- Global Scientific Lead, GI Health
- Nestle Health Science
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Ingmar Claes, Ph.D.
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Yun Probiotherapy
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Chris Shibutani, MD
- Managing Director, Healthcare-Biotechnology, Sr. Research Analyst
- Cowen, Inc.
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Bryan Barnhart, Ph.D.
- Senior Director, Immuno-Oncology
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Ricky Sun, Ph.D.
- Principal
- Bain Capital Life Sciences
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Jeff Stevens
- Vice President, Growth Strategy & Operations
- PureTech Health
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Lily Ting, Ph.D.
- Associate
- PureTech Health
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Peter Christey, Ph.D.
- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- General Automation Lab Technologies (GALT)
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Olga Danilchanka, Ph.D.
- Microbiome Lead, Exploratory Science Center
- Merck
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David Kyle, Ph.D.
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Evolve Biosystems
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Mark Smith, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Finch Therapeutics
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Jillian DeWalt
- Co-Founder, Head of NGS and Discovery Lab
- Solarea Bio
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Bernat Olle, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Vedanta Biosciences
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Jeffrey Solomon
- Chief Executive Officer
- Cowen, Inc.
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Elliot Friedman, Ph.D.
- Sr. Research Investigator, Division of Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania
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Dirk Gevers, Ph.D.
- Global Head, Janssen Human Microbiome Institute
- Janssen Research and Development
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Marc Guell, Ph.D.
- Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director
- S Biomedic
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Dario Gutierrez, Ph.D.
- Immuno-Biology Lead
- Merck Exploratory Science Center
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Denise Kelley, Ph.D.
- Investment Advisor
- Seventure Partners
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Nur A. Hasan, Ph.D.
- Vice President, Head of Research and Development
- Cosmos ID
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Travis Whitfill, Ph.D.
- Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
- Azitra
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Julia Oh, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Jackson Laboratory
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Briana Benton
- Technical Manager
- American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
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David Beno, Ph.D.
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Xeno Biosciences
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Colleen Cutcliffe, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Whole Biome
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Bernadette Janas, Ph.D.
- Global Medical Affairs Lead
- Nestle Health Science
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David Resnick, JD
- Partner
- Nixon Peabody LLP
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Stephen Barrie, MD, Ph.D.
- Chief Business Development Officer
- Viome
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Barbara Rehermann, MD
- Sr. Investigator, Immunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK
- National Institutes of Health
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Stephan Rosshart, MD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK
- National Institutes of Health
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Craig Franklin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
- University of Missouri
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Arne Materna, Ph.D.
- Vice President Products
- Cosmos ID
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Assaf Oron
- Chief Business Officer
- BiomX
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Pinaki Panigrahi, MD, Ph.D.
- Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics
- University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health
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Adham Alijahmi
- CEO and Co-Founder
- Blue Turtle Bio
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Kashef Qaadri
- VP of Marketing
- One Codex
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Mark Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
- Partner
- Nixon Peabody LLP
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Alex Kostic, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
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Jonathan Scheiman, Ph.D.
- Co-Founder and CEO
- Fitbiomics
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Aaron Del Duca
- Vice President, Technology, Head, Microbiome Business Unit
- DNA Genotek
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Marian Nakada, Ph.D.
- Vice President, Venture Investments
- Johnson & Johnson Innovation
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Tonya Ward, Ph.D.
- Sr. Research Scientist
- CoreBiome
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Robin Temmerman, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chrisal N.V.
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Maciej Chichlowski, Ph.D.
- Principal Scientist
- Mead Johnson Nutrition
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Mat Franken
- Chief Executive Officer
- Aunt Fannies
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Take Ogawa
- Director, Business Development
- Second Genome
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Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
- Translational Scientist, Computational & Analytics Support
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Aaron Ericsson, DVM, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Director, Missouri University Metagenomics Center
- University of Missouri
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Gang Fang, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Morten Isaksen, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Bio-Me AS
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Alexander Maue, Ph.D.
- Director, Microbiome Products and Services
- Taconic Biosciences
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John Howell
- Industry Technology Specialist HHC
- Novozymes
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Joe Rubino
- Research and Development Director
- Reckitt Benckiser
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Edward Burd, Ph.D.
- Head of Regulatory Affairs
- Rebiotix
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Bill Shannon, Ph.D., MBA
- President and Founder
- Biorankings
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Philip Strandwitz, Ph.D.
- Co-Founder and CEO
- Holobiome
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Tim Morck, Ph.D.
- President
- Spectrum Nutrition
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Rachid Ounit, Ph.D.
- Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
- Biotia
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Erin Tesch
- Senior VP and Managing Director
- TSG Consulting
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Nancy Caralla
- Executive Director
- C Diff Foundation
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Robert Orenstein, DO
- Chair, Division of Infectious Disease
- Mayo Clinic
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Stefan Jennewein, Ph.D.
- Managing Director
- Jennewein Biotechnologie
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Erik Dubberke, MD, MSPH
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Section of Transplant Infectious Diseases
- Washington University School of Medicine
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Craig Thomson
- Partner
- HGF Ltd.
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Allan Cohen, JD
- Partner
- Nixon Peabody