Probiotics, Prebiotics & New foods - Rome Congress 2023

Main Topics

  • GUT MICROBIOME AND HEALTH: MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS
  • NEW FOODS IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS
  • GUT-SKIN AXIS
  • PROBOTICS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND SPONDYLOARTHRITIS
  • NUTRICOSMETICS
  • MACRONUTRIENT METABOLISM BY THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOME
  • MUSCLE AGING, SARCOPENIA AND GUT DYSBIOSIS
  • PROBIOTICS AND GUT BRAIN AXIS IN AUTISM, ALTZHEIMER, PARKINSON, DEPRESSION
  • MEDITERRANEAN DIET
  • DRUGS AND BUGS
  • DIETARY POLIPHENOLS AND GUT MICROBIOTA IN PERFORMANCE OF ENDURANCE ATHLETES
  • ENGINEERING PROBIOTICS AS LIVING DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS
  • GUT MICROBIOAL METABOLIC PATHWAYS IN CARDIA DISEASES AND ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION
  • BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS OF PLANT FOODS
  • PLANT-BASED PROTEINS: IMPACT ON PHYSICOCHEMICAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES
  • GUT MICROBIOTA AND DIET IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: A ROLE FOR PROBIOTICS?
  • PARAPROBIOTICS AND POSTBIOTICS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
  • GUT MICROBIOME AND ITS ROLE IN COLORECTAL CANCER: VARIATION FROM COLIC POLYPS TO COLON CANCER
  • MODULATION OF ORAL MICROBIOTA: A NEW FRONTIER
  • SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GUT MICROBIOTA IN ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: A ROLE FOR PROBIOTICS?
  • MYCOTOXIN AND GUT MICROBIOTA INTERACTIONS
  • MARINE POLYSACCHARIDES
  • PROBIOTICS IN AQUACULTURE
  • PROBIOTICS IN VETERINARY MEDICINE
  • MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR SECONDARY METABOLITES
  • MICROBIOTA, PREGNANCY, BIRTH & INFANCY ZONE
  • BOTANICALS & PHYTOMEDICALS
  • GUT-BRAIN AXIS
  • GUT MICROBIOTA & IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY
  • WOMEN MICROBIOME: A DIFFERENT WAY TO FEEL HEALTHY

  • The relationship between human host and microbota: toward a unifying scheme of diseases

  • Healthy people, healthy animals, healthy food to Disease Prediction and Control

  • Microbiota-host crosstalk and Gut Microbiota
  • Evidence of diet influence on the Gut Microbiota
  • Evidence of Gut Microbiota influence on diet
  • Food botanicals& phytochemicals- microbiota interactions
  • Effective therapeutic strategies to manipulate the Gut Microbiota
  • Mobilome: the Dynamic of Gut Microbiota
  • Modulation of the quality and diversity of human Gut Microbiota
  • Role of bacterial metabolites
  • Relationship between diet, Gut Microbiota and disease risk

  • The Intestinal Epithelial Barrier in vitro and ex vivo models
  • Alterations in the functions of epithelial barrier
  • Gut microbiota and the immune system: from allergies to viruses to cancer
  • Gut microbiota and gut secretory IgA
  • Gut microbiota and host defense against infectious diseases
  • Gut microbiota and digestive diseases: SIBO, Celiac disease, IBS, IBD, Liver diseases, Diarrhea, Cancer
  • Gut microbiota-oral axis: can oral bacteria affect the gut microbiota?
  • Gut microbiota-lung-axix
  • Gut microbiota -skin axis
  • Gut microbiota-genito urinary axis
  • Gut microbiota-bone marrow axis
  • Gut microbiota and inflammatory arthritis
  • Gut microbiota-retina axis
  • Gut microbiota-muscle axis and sarcopenia
  • Gut microbiota signaling to extraintestinal organs
  • Gut microbiota and vegetarian&vegan diet
  • Gut Microbiota in Aging
  • Lactoferrin: impact on key gut bacterial species

  • Gut microbiota, nutrient absorption and energy regulation
  • Gut microbiota metabolism and interaction with food components
  • Gut microbiota and macronutrient metbolism
  • Gut microbiota as a route for micronutrient bioavailability
  • Gut microbiota and tryptophan metabolism
  • SCFA: gut hormone release, digestive tract motility and appetite control
  • Gut microbiota and oxidative stress
  • Gut microbiota and biotransformation of bile acids
  • Gut microbiota enzyme activity
  • Gut microbiota and metabolic syndrome
  • SCFA producing bacterial strains as potential next generation probiotics with benefits in metabolic disorders

  • Gut microbiota and gut virome: inter-individual variation and dynamic response to diet
  • Bacteriophages: modulation of the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome
  • Bacteriophages therapy
  • Gut microbiota and gut parasites
  • Gut Mycobiota and Fungal Metabolites
  • Gut mycobiota in Immunity and Inflammation
  • Gut mycobiota in intestinal and extraintestinal diseases
  • Archaea and Protists in the gut microbiota
  • Worms-Microbiota Interactions
  • Worms and Parasitic infections of the gastro-intestinal tract
  • Mechanisms of gut worms-microbiota interaction

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Postbiotics

  • Probiotics benefits
  • Commercial probiotics
  • Probiotic supplements
  • Foods with probiotics
  • Probiotic side effects
  • Next generation probiotics benefits
  • Probiotics 2.0: new indications
  • Heat kills probiotics
  • Novel formulations and delivery systems
  • Multistrains vs single strain probiotics
  • New Probiotics for Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhoea
  • Food fermeted with probiotics
  • Probiotics in veterinary medicine
  • Probiotics in aquaculture
  • Phytoprobiotic
  • Chemically and Biologically Engineered Bacteria
  • Exosome-like nanoparticles (ELNPs) released by proiotics
  • Biotherapeutics bacteria (other than Akkermansia muciniphila or Faecalibacterium prausnitzii)
  • Regulatory

  • Criteria for the classification of prebiotics
  • Prebiotic Systems Chemistry
  • New baseline for prebiotic innovation
  • Health Effects of prebiotics to improve gut heath
  • Microbial prebiotics fermentation metabolites
  • GOS,Gut Microbiota and SCFA
  • Regulatory

(Cell free supernatants, Enzymes, Exopolysaccharides, Cell Wall Fragments, Short-Chain Fatty Acid, Bacterial Lysate, Metabolites Produced by Gut Microbiota)

  • Potential Mechanisms of Postbiotics & Metabolites Action
  • Anti-microbial peptides and their role in modulating the microbiota
  • Applications to the food, nutrition and nutraceutics
  • SCFA producing bacterial strains as potential probiotics
  • Pathways and health benefits
  • Regulatory
  • FMT: Regulatory and clinical indications

  • Modulation of the quality and diversity of human microbiota?
  • How to induce durable beneficial changes in gut microbiota?
  • Where is the red line of the gut microbiota manipulation?
  • What are the strategic mediators of gut microbiota?
  • How to understand better the role of bacterial metabolites?
  • What is the perfect microbiota “signature” and how to use it as a biomarker to “predict” and/or treat many diseases?
  • What is the influence of gut microbiota on the development and progression of chronic diseases?

(Bioactive nutrient plant chemicals in fruit,vegetables,grains and other plant foods tha tmay provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition or reduce the risk of diseases)

  • Mechanisms of action
  • Novel methods to identify the activity
  • Impact on the gut microbiota and intestinal homeostasis
  • Impact on the fermetation capabilities of gut
  • Immunomodulatory and pro- and anti-inflammatory potential
  • Exosome-like nanoparticles in communication with gut microbiota
  • Different metabolites production from the bioactive compounds
  • Food compounds in the regulation of diabetes and CV diseases
  • Food compounds as therapeutic agents
  • Food compounds in personalized nutrition
  • Dietary Plant-Derived Microbial Mediators and Intestinal Homeostasis
  • Mycotoxins contamination in food

  • Novel technologies for food processing and engineerin
  • Physical properties and structure of food
  • Chemistry of food components
  • Biochemical and physiological actions of food components
  • Nutritional aspects of food
  • Food safety and security
  • Chemistry and physics of food digestion processes
  • Relationship between the physical properties/structure of food and nutrition and health
  • Molecular properties and physiological effects of food components (novel ingredients, food substitutes, phytochemicals, bioactives, allergens, flavours and fragrances)
  • Nutrient physiology/metabolism and interactions
  • Role of nutrition and diet in disease

  • Diet influence on the microbiota
  • Diet-Induced Dysbiosis
  • Microbiota influence on the response to dietary components
  • Immunomodulatory potential of phytochemicals
  • Relationship between diet, microbiota and disease risk
  • Preclinical models and clinical studies to assess the impact of microbiota
  • Productin of “microbiota-directed foods” that promote health
  • Nordic vs Meditteraean diet and gut microbiota
  • Fermented foods, cosmeceuticals. Phycology : sea weed and algal polysaccharides

  • Chemistry and biochemistry of dietary poliphenols
  • Bioactivity of dietary polyphenols
  • Dietary polyphenols interaction with gut microbiota
  • Dietary polyphenols and lactic acid bacteria
  • Flavonoids as anti-inflammatory agents
  • Gut microbiota modulation of anthocyanins activity
  • Antioxidant Capacity of Anthocyanin Pigments
  • Cocaflavonols activity
  • Polypenols to control intestinal barrier damage
  • Polyphenols and glycemic control