2nd International Conference on Oral Mucosal Immunity and Microbiome

Program

Saturday, September 25

     

7:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

     

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception and Dinner

     

Sunday, September 26

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION I

 

Inflammatory disease and therapeutic approaches

Chairs: Georgios Belibasakis and George Hajishengallis

9:00 AM

1

Establishing a unique scientific stage to communicate and advance research in oral mucosal immunity and microbiome (OMIM): The 2nd International Conference on OMIM in Kos, Greece, 2021

Georgios Belibasakis and George Hajishengallis

9:30 AM

2

From mouse models to interventions in human oral disease

George Hajishengallis

10:00 AM

3

Phase 2a clinical trial of complement C3 inhibitor AMY-101 in adults with periodontal inflammation

Hasturk Hatice

10:30 AM

4

Immunoglobulin gene expression profiles and microbiome characteristics in periodontitis in nonhuman primates

Jeffrey Ebersole, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Sreenatha Kirakodu, and Octavio Gonzalez

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION II

 

Host-Microbe interactions

Chairs: Jeffrey Ebersole and Silvia Uriarte

11:30 AM

5

‘Til death do us part: Filifactor alocis effect on neutrophil lifespan’

Silvia Uriarte

12:00 PM

6

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in health and disease

Anders Johansson

12:30 PM

7

Host-Candida interactions – at toxic encounter

Julian Naglik

1:00 PM

8

Mucosal bacteria modulate Candida virulence in oropharyngeal candidiasis

Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou

     

1:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Monday, September 27

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION III

 

Inter-species interactions and impact on the host

Chairs: Anders Johansson and Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou

9:00 AM

9

The ever changing moods of Streptococcus gordonii and the impact on Porphyromonas gingivalis

Richard Lamont

9:30 AM

10

An oral pathogen that needs a quorum, or a special friend, for colonization and virulence

Patricia Diaz

10:00 AM

11

Corynebacterium durum-a central node of oral commensalism

Puthalayai Treerat, Emily Helliwell, Justin Merritt, and Jens Kreth

10:30 AM

12

Spatial structure-function of polymicrobial oral biofilm in its native state

Hyun (Michel) Koo

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION IV

 

Host response and the oral microbiota

Chairs: Jan Potempa and Nagihan Bostanci

11:30 AM

13

Targeting NF-κB/A20 Axis to Maintain Periodontal Health

Esra Sahingur

12:00 PM

14

Synergistic activation of gingival fibroblasts by the inflammatory tissue environment and oral pathogens: a potential new pathomechanism in periodontitis

Aleksander Grabiec, Elwira Nieboga, Slawomir Dudek, Ewelina Gruca, and Jan Potempa

12:30 PM

15

aMMP-8: the utility of oral fluid POCT in periodontitis related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Timo Sorsa, Dimitra Sakellari, Andreas Grigordiaris, Taina Tervahartiala, Ismo Räisänen, Vaibhav Sahni, and Shipra Gupta

     

1:00 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Tuesday, September 28

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION V

 

Virulence factors

Chairs: Richard Lamont and Patricia Diaz

9:00 AM

16

Discovery of a novel RTX toxin in Filifactor alocis, FtxA

Jan Oscarsson, Rolf Claesson, Kai Bao, Malin Brundin, and Georgios Belibasakis

9:30 AM

17

Biochemical Comparison of Native and Recombinant Peptidylarginine Deiminase Enzyme from Porphyromonas gingivalis

Grzegorz Bereta, Danuta Mizgalska, Katarzyna Gawron, and Jan Potempa

10:00 AM

18

PPAD activity is essential for Toll-like 2 receptor dependent host cell response to Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae

Aleksandra Wielento, Grzegorz Bereta, Aleksander Grabiec, Richard Lamont, and Jan Potempa

10:30 AM

19

A dual ‘yin–yang’ role of Tf-derived miropin in the pathobiology of periodontitis

Malgorzata Benedyk-Machaczka, Miroslaw Ksiazek, Danuta Mizgalska, Alicja Sochaj-Gregorczyk, Irena Waligórska, and Jan Potempa

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION VI

 

Periodontal disease

Chairs: Hyun Michael Koo and Francesco D'Aiuto

11:30 AM

20

The regulation and expression of pleckstrin, a potential periodontitis biomarker

Abdul Alim, Duncan Njenda, Anna Lundmark, Marta Kamińska, Leif Jansson, Kaja Eriksson, Anna Kats, Gunnar Johannsen, Catalin Koro Arvidsson, Mydel Piotr, and Tulay Yucel-Lindberg

12:00 PM

21

DNMT inhibitors have detrimental effects on gingival fibroblasts but provide important insights into the role of DNA methylation in periodontitis

Katarzyna Łagosz-Ćwik, Jan Potempa, and Aleksander Grabiec

12:30 PM

22

Tpe I and type III in antiviral immunity in the respiratory tract

Evangelos Andreakos

1:00 PM

23

Proteome mapping of gingivitis tolerance and resilience

Nagihan Bostanci

     

1:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

Depart from hotel lobby at 3:30 PM

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

     

Wednesday, September 29

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION VII

 

Infections at the oral mucosa and beyond  

Chairs: Hasturk Hatice and Sahingur Sinem Esra

9:00 AM

24

Evaluating the accuracy of microbial infection models

Marvin Whiteley and Gina Lewin

9:30 AM

25

tumor acceleration by Fusobacterium nucleatum fusolisin

Amjad Shhadeh, Liat Dassa, Ofer  Mandelboim, and Gilad Bachrach

10:00 AM

26

Periodontal disease increases oral-gut transmission of colitogenic Haemophilus parainfluenzae in inflammatory bowel disease patients

Keith Kirkwood, Jiho Sohn, Patricia Diaz, Lu Li, Lixia Zhang, Yijun Sun, and Karen Falkner

10:30 AM

27

The role of microbiome spatial structure in the host-microbe interaction

Juan Barraza and Marvin Whieteley

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

     

SESSION VIII

Immunomicrobial mechanisms and therapies

Chairs: Marvin Whiteley and Keith Kirkwood

11:30 AM

28

A clinical assessment of Chios mastic effects in gingivitis and oral microbiome using advanced sequencing techniques

Filippos Kardaras, Skoufos Giorgos, Spyros Tastsoglou, Chrysa Giota, Efthymios Skaribas, Ilias Smyrnioudis, William Papaioannou, Beatriz Martinez-Gonzales, Dionyssios Sgouras, and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

12:00 PM

30

TBA

Francesco D'Aiuto

12:30 PM

31

CD8+ T cell priming in mandibular lymph nodes initiates systemic immunity during oral infection

Juliana Barreto de Albuquerque, Diego von Werdt, David Francisco, Geert van Geest, Lukas Altenburger, Jun Abe, Xenia Ficht, Matteo Iannacone, Remy Bruggmann, Christoph  Mueller, and Jens Stein

     

1:00 PM

 

Closing Remarks

     

1:10 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

     

Thursday, September 30

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     
   

Departure