Programme
15th April 2026
| 08h00 am | Registration |
| 09h00 am | Welcome Session |
| 09h15 am | Keynote Speaker John Cryan University College Cork Ireland |
| 10h05 am | Session 1: Gut Microbiome & Health Session 1 Invited Talk To be announced |
| 10h30 am | Coffee break |
| 11h00 am | Session 1: Selected abstract 1 Session 1: Selected abstract 2 |
| 11h30 am | Session 1 Invited Talk To be announced |
| 12h00 pm | Lunch |
| 1h00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
| 2h30 pm |
Panel Discussion 1: From Bench to Bedside to Boardroom: The Future of Probiotics Moderator: Johan van Hylckama Vlieg (Freya Biosciences, USA) |
| 3h30 pm |
Session 2: Diet, Nutrition & the Gut Microbiome |
| 3h55 pm | Session 2: Selected abstract 3 |
| 4h10 pm | Session 2: Selected abstract 4 |
| 4h25 pm | Coffee break and poster session |
| 7h30 pm | Conference Dinner |
16th April 2026
| 08h00 am | Registration |
| 09h00 am | Keynote Speaker Nicola Segata CIBIO Department University of Trento Italy |
| 09h50 am | Session 3: Microbiome Data Analysis & Computational Approaches Session 3: Invited Talk Sara Vieira-Silva University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany |
| 10h15 am | Coffee break |
| 10h45 am | Session 3: Selected abstract 5 |
| 11h00 am | Session 3: Selected abstract 6 |
| 11h40 am |
Panel Discussion 2: Advances in Microbiome Testing & Diagnostics Moderator: Amine Zorgani (Microbiome Mavericks, France) |
| 12h45 pm | Lunch |
| 1h45 pm | Poster Session 2 |
| 2h45 pm | Session 4: Microbiomes & Host Interaction Session 4 Invited Talk Ludovica Marinelli Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) University Gent Belgium |
| 3h10 pm | Session 4: Selected abstract 7 |
| 3h25 pm | Session 4: Selected abstract 8 |
| 3h40 pm | Coffee break and poster session |
| 4h15 pm |
Session 5: Citizen Science & Microbiomes |
| 4h40 pm | Session 5: Selected abstract 10 |
| 4h55 pm | Session 5 Invited Talk Patrick Veiga INRAE's MetaGenoPolis France |
| 5h20 pm | Conference Final Remarks |
