Hosted by the Nebraska Microbiome Research Interest Group

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1:00 PM            Welcome

1:15                  Jonathan Clayton, DVM, PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (UNMC), Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology (UNL), “Disrupting the Balance: Using Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis to Study Gut-Brain Communication in a Nonhuman Primate Model System”

1:45                  Jordan Hernandez, Postdoctoral Student, UNMC Department of Biology, “Antibiotic-Induced Changes in Gut Microbial Function Interpreted Within the Context of the Gut-Brain Axis”

2:15                  Soonjo Hwang, MD., Research Director, UNMC Department of Psychiatry, “Animal Mode of Mental Health Disorders by the RDoC Framework: New Research Direction for Brain-Gut Axis”

2:45                  Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD., Professor & Vice Chair of Research, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, “Role of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Emerging and Remerging Viral Diseases”

3:15                  Shilpa Buch, PhD., Professor, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, “Drugs of Abuse and Microbial Dysbiosis”

3:45                  Keynote speaker: John Cryan, B.Sc., PhD., Professor & Chair, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, Vice President for Research & Innovation, “The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on the Brain and Behavior”

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