2020 Keynotes
This event will host a curated panel of some of the top experts on the gut microbiome. Join us for a unique, interactive event, where attendees will have the opportunity to sit down in a roundtable mini-mastermind session and engage in conversation with these notable microbiome experts.
Mark Tager, MD
DUKE UNIVERSITY INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
The Power of Practitioner Presence
The best way to grow your practice is to enhance your presence. Practitioners need a plan to get noticed, known and remembered for their great care. Underlying this plan is the power of presence. This interactive session will focus on the skills to attract…
Nicole Beurkens, PhD
LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST AND BOARD, CERTIFIED NUTRITIONAL SPECIALIST
The Family Biome: Behavioral and Relational Factors that Influence Microbiome Health in Children and Adults
The family unit constitutes a unique biome of not only humans, microorganisms, and the physical environment, but also the emotions and behaviors of individuals within the system…
Rita R Colwell, PhD
COSMOSID, INC. FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A Woman's Journey Through Sexism in Science & Tracking Down Cholera & Covid-19
The gut microbiome is known to be a useful indicator of wellness and disease. Understanding the total microbial community identification of compositional species to strain level provides highly useful information for…
Slavko Komarnytsky, PhD
NC STATE UNIVERSITY | KANNAPOLIS, NC, CATAWBA COLLEGE | SALISBURY, NC
Microbiome is a Key Component of your Nutritional Health
Solving a problem of malnutrition in societies flooded with calories and processed foods is key to improving our lives. Gut microbiome may consist of a thousand species of bacteria that co-exist stably over years, generations…
Kiran Krishnan
MICROBIOME LABS
CO-FOUNDER | CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
The Microbiome’s Control of Immune Function
The world has lived through an unprecedented time with the pandemic spread of COVID19. In an effort to decrease our susceptibility to other harmful viral infections, this is an opportunity to collectively educate patients on…
Maya Shetreat, MD
NEUROLOGIST, HERBALIST, URBAN FARMER, AND AUTHOR
Aligning with the Terrain of the Earth
Our microbiome lives in and on our bodies. But it is not something we have in isolation from the world around us. This microscopic community of organisms acts not only as a bridge between us and the natural world - it is a reflection of the richness of that…
Mary Regan, RN, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
The Vaginal Microbiome and Diet
Although the precise mechanism of its contribution is unclear, there is a growing body of evidence that nutritional factors in the diet shape the types, abundance and structure of the microbiota that in turn influences physiologic function in the host. This research…
Lara Adler
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS EXPERT & EDUCATOR
Environmental Toxins, The Gut, and The Microbiome
An examination of the role that chronic, low-dose exposures to environmental chemicals may play in altering gut health and the microbiome, with am emphasis on how practitioners can guide patients towards…
Jocelyn Strand, ND
DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL EDUCATION FOR
BIO-BOTANICAL RESEARCH, INC.
The Gut-Lung Axis: The Role of the Oral, GI, and Pulmonary Microbiomes in Respiratory Health
Dr. Jocelyn Strand graduated from Bastyr University in 2005 with a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine. Following her graduation, she established her…