Sophisticated in vitro Models of the Gastrointestinal Tract to Study the Role of the Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease
Dr. Koen Venema, Editor-in-chief of Beneficial Microbes from The Netherlands, will join Targeting Microbiota 2024 this October to give a presentation on his latest research: "Sophisticated in vitro Models of the Gastrointestinal Tract to Study the Role of the Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease".
He will also have a second presentation on the second day of the congress: "Targeting the Microbiota by Medical Professionals: Where are We Now?"
About Koen Venema
Dr. Venema studied Chemistry at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 1990. He received his PhD in Natural Sciences from the same university, on the antimicrobial activity of bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in 1995. He pursued the health-beneficial activity of these microbes as a Post-Doc at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, where he studied the potential of LAB to function as carrier for vaccines. Thereafter, in 1998 he was employed by TNO for > 15 years, where he used the sophisticated, dynamic, computer-controlled in vitro models of the gastro-intestinal tract developed by TNO (nick-named TIM) to study the effect of functional foods and drugs on bioavailability and effects on the colonic microbiota. Within TNO he has led many multi-disciplinary projects on health of the host (e.g. gut health, inflammatory disease, allergy, obesity) and the role of probiotics and the gut microbiota in these diseases and disorders. In the period 2004-2014 he has been project leader of two projects within the Public Private Partnership TI Food & Nutrition, of which TNO was a partner. Within these multidisciplinary projects his research was devoted to a) the effect of the activity of the microbiota on gut health and obesity using, amongst others, the TNO in vitro models, and b) the interaction of probiotics and prebiotics with the host, a project which looked at the interaction of fibers and probiotics with the immune system of the host.
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