ISM 2026 Confirmed Speakers
Shaping the Future of Microbiota Medicine: From Mechanisms to Prevention
Alain Stintzi, University of Ottawa, Canada | The Presidential Lecture of the International Society of Microbiota
Smoking, Microbiota and Immunity: Solving a 40-Year Clinical Paradox
Hiroshi Ohno, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan
The Next Frontier in GeroMedicine: Programming the Microbiome for Healthy Longevity
Soheil Saeedi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Digital Microbiology and Next-Generation Sequencing: Harnessing Clinical Metagenomics for Precision Medicine
Ashley Rooney, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Can the Microbiome Become a Standard Component of Precision Oncology?
Meriem Messaoudene, University of Montreal, Canada
Early-Life Microbiota: Shaping Immunity, Lifelong Health and Disease Risk
Mercedes Gomez de Agüero Tamargo, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Beyond the Gut: Microbiota-Derived Bile Acids in Tissue Immunity and Inflammation
Tomasz Wypych, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Poland
Can the Gut Microbiome Predict the Next Cardiovascular Event? Insights from the CORDIOPREV Cohort
Antonio Camargo, University of Cordoba, Spain
Harnessing the Gut Microbiome to Unlock Anti-Tumor Immunity
Ze'ev Ronai, Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University, USA
From Population Science To Personalised Nutrition: Microbial Metabolites As The Functional Link Between Diet, The Gut Microbiome And Health
Cristina Menni, King's College London, UK & University of Milan, Italy
From Mucosal Inflammation to Malignancy: Deciphering the Microbiome at the Crossroads of IBD and Colorectal Cancer
Michael Scharl, University of Zurich, Switzerland