Having IMPACTT 3:
Advancing Microbiome Research
July 10-12, 2023
Selected Abstracts
Selected Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentation
See below for the abstracts selected for oral and poster presentations for our Having IMPACTT 3: Advancing Microbiome Research Symposium on July 10-12, 2023 at the Malcolm Hotel in Canmore, AB, Canada.
Presenters
Oral Presenters
Session 1: Microbiome Beyond Bacteria (Monday, July 10, 2023)
Diana Rojas
Aviva Rotter-Maskowitz
Session 3: Microbiome Across Life Stages (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)
Dr. Amee Manges
Dr. Van Ortega
Session 4: Microbiome & Nutrition (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)
Dr. Thierry Mallevaey
Erin Strachan
Session 5: Omics & Bioinformatics (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)
Ben Grodner
Dr. John Parkinson
Flash Talk & Poster Presenters
Flash Talk & Poster Session #1 (Monday, July 10, 2023)
Monica Alvaro Fuss (Poster 1)
Dale Archer (Poster 2)
Ben Fisher (Poster 3)
Mackenzie Gutierrez (Poster 4)
Dr. Natasha Haskey (Poster 5)
Courtney Hoskinson (Poster 6)
Flash Talk & Poster Session #2 (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)
Eszter Pal (Poster 45)
Kenny Shin (Poster 46)
Dr. Matthew Sorbara (Poster 47)
Gillian Tanabe (Poster 48)
Dr. Carolyn Thomson (Poster 49)
Dr. Weilan Wang (Poster 50)
Poster Presenters
Poster Session #1 (Monday, July 10, 2023)
Spencer Abbott (Poster 7)
Dr. Sima Afsharnezhad (Poster 8)
Dr. Shokouh Ahmadi (Poster 9)
Nazanin Arjomand-Fard (Poster 10)
Jérémie Auger (Poster 12)
Abimbola Badejo (Poster 13)
Sahar Bagheri (Poster 14)
Delaney Barth (Poster 15)
Dr. Evandro Beraldi (Poster 16)
Dr. Dominique Bihan (Poster 17)
Dr. Kirsty Brown (Poster 18)
Dr. Larissa Celiberto (Poster 19)
Catherine Chan (Poster 20)
Diana Changirwa (Poster 21)
Leah D’Aloisio (Poster 22)
Darlene Dai (Poster 23)
Dr. Marcela Davoli-Ferreira (Poster 24)
Dr. Vanessa DeClercq (Poster 25)
Dr. Dhwani Desai (Poster 26)
Pedro Dimitriu (Poster 27)
Liz-Audrey Djomnang (Poster 28)
Peter Dobranowski (Poster 29)
Breenna Dobson (Poster 30)
Toluwatise Ehindero (Poster 31)
Dr. Han Fang (Poster 32)
Zhi Yi Fang (Poster 33)
Bradley Fitzgerald (Poster 34)
Dr. Fabien Franco (Poster 35)
Dr. Thaís Glatthardt (Poster 36)
Dr. Simon Hirota (Poster 37)
Dr. Aline Ignacio (Poster 38)
Maira Jiménez-Sanchez (Poster 39)
Wasif Khan (Poster 41)
Dr. Yeganeh Khaniani (Poster 42)
Reihane Khorasaniha (Poster 43)
Pardis Kiani (Poster 44)
Poster Session #2 (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)
Dr. Larisa Kovtonyuk (Poster 51)
Samuel Lawal (Poster 52)
Dr. Karen Lithgow (Poster 53)
Dana Lowry (Poster 54)
Yao Lu (Poster 55)
Madeline Mellet (Poster 56)
Emily Mercer (Poster 57)
Dr. Selene Meza-Perez (Poster 58)
Dr. Chunlong Mu (Poster 59)
Kevin Muirhead (Poster 60)
Hana Olof (Poster 61)
Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Poster 62)
Dr. John Parkinson (Poster 63)
Dr. Sarah Piché-Choquette (Poster 64)
Erika Prando Munhoz (Poster 65)
Dr. Charlène Roussel (Poster 66)
Mahana Sabachvili (Poster 67)
Maricarmen Salas-López (Poster 68)
Jared Schlechte (Poster 69)
Shrushti Shah (Poster 70)
Shrushti Shah (Poster 71)
Sara Shama (Poster 72)
Dr. Saif Sikdar (Poster 73)
Isla Skalosky (Poster 74)
Sara Stickley (Poster 75)
Dr. Lena Takayasu (Poster 76)
Dr. Marcel van de Wouw (Poster 77)
Erik van Tilburg Bernardes (Poster 78)
Dr. Jennifer Vena (Poster 79)
Sasanka Weerasingha (Poster 80)
Logan Wisteard (Poster 81)
Anthony Wong (Poster 82)
Dr. Robyn Wright (Poster 83)
Wendy Zhang (Poster 84)
Dr. Reda Albadawy (Poster 85)
Abstracts
Oral Presenters
Diana Rojas (Session 1: Microbiome Beyond Bacteria)
Graduate Student, CINVESTAV (Mexico)
Characterization of the archaeal community bound by immunoglobulins in colostrum and newborn feces
Diana Laura Rojas-Guerrero, Karina Corona-Cervantes, Carmen Josefina Juárez-Castelán, Alberto PiñaEscobedo, Bulmaro Cisneros-Vega, Leopoldo Santos-Argumedo, Tito Ramírez-Lozada, Gustavo AcostaAltamirano, Mónica Sierra-Martínez, Paola Berenice Zárate-Segura, Jaime García-Mena
Aviva Rotter-Maskowitz (Session 1: Microbiome Beyond Bacteria)
PhD Student, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Bacteria Mediated ALKi Chemoresistance in EML4-ALK fusion NSCLC
Aviva Rotter Maskowitz,Deborah Nejman Dan Raz, Ravid Straussman
Dr. Amee Manges (Session 3: Microbiome Across Life Stages)
Professor & Division Head, University of British Columbia (Canada)
The gut microbiome and early-life growth in a population with high prevalence of stunting
Ruairi C. Robertson, Thaddeus J. Edens, Lynnea Carr, Kuda Mutasa, Ethan K. Gough, Ceri Evans, Hyun Min Geum, Iman Baharmand, Sandeep K. Gill, Robert Ntozini, Laura E Smith, Bernard Chasekwa, Florence D. Majo, Naume V. Tavengwa, Batsirai Mutasa, Freddy Francis, Joice Tome, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Jean H. Humphrey, Andrew J. Prendergast, Amee R. Manges
Dr. Van Ortega (Session 3: Microbiome Across Life Stages)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary (Canada)
The influence of early-life gut microbiome disruption on HPA axis dysregulation and allergic asthma
Van A. Ortega, Colin Mackenzie, Fernando A. Vicentini, Muhammad Hafeez, Shirin Moossavi, Mona Parizadeh, Erik van Tilburg Bernardes, Veronika Kuchařová, Emily Mercer, Kristen Kalbfleisch, Jumana Samara, Keith A. Sharkey, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Dr. Thierry Mallevaey (Session 4: Microbiome & Nutrition)
Associate Professor, University of Toronto (Canada)
Microbiota – iNKT cell interactions: a one-way street?
Meggie Kuypers, Qiaochu Lin, Tijana Despot, Carolina de Amat Herbozo, Dana Philpott and Thierry Mallevaey
Erin Strachan (Session 4: Microbiome & Nutrition)
MSc Student, University of Alberta (Canada)
Effects of Maternal Dysbiosis on Type 1 Diabetes Incidence in Offspring
Erin Strachan, Tingting Ju, Paulo José Basso, Ben Willing, Xavier Clemente Casares, Sue Tsai
Ben Grodner (Session 5: Omics & Bioinformatics)
PhD Student, Cornell University (USA)
Spatial Mapping of Mobile DNA Elements in Complex Microbiomes at Single Cell Resolution
Benjamin Grodner, Hao Shi, Owen Farchione, Albert Vill, Peter Diebold, Ioannis Ntekas, Warren Zipfel, Ilana Brito, Iwijn De Vlaminck
Dr. John Parkinson (Session 4: Omics & Bioinformatics + Poster 63)
Senior Scientist, SickKids
Chick-MaTron: in silico modelling of complex microbial communities in the poultry gut
Irina Utkina, John Parkinson
Flash Talk & Poster Presenters
Monica Alvaro Fuss (Poster 1)
Graduate Student, Dalhousie University (Canada)
Microgravity and the microbiome: exploring the effects of head-down tilt bedrest and exercise on gut and oral microbiota
Monica Alvaro Fuss, Vanessa DeClercq, Susan Howlett, Joanna M. Blodgett, Olga Theou, Morgan Langille, Robert Beiko
Dale Archer (Poster 2)
PhD Student, University of Alberta (Canada)
The Effects of VANISH Species of Bacteria in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis
Archer D., Perez-Muñoz M.E., Tollenaar S., Veniamin S., Hotte N., Cheng C.C., Power C., Krishnamoorthy G., Barreda D.R., and Walter J.
Ben Fisher (Poster 3)
Graduate Student, Dalhousie University (Canada)
The Relationship between Blood and Tumour Microbes in Patients with Cancer
Benjamin R. Fisher, Robyn J. Wright, Vanessa DeClercq, Morgan G.I. Langille
Mackenzie Gutierrez (Poster 4)
MD/PhD Student, University of Calgary (Canada)
Gut mycobiome core species causally modulate metabolic health in mice
Mackenzie W. Gutierrez, Erik van Tilburg Bernardes, Kristen Kalbfleisch, Madeline Day, Thaís Glatthardt, Emily Mercer, Faye Chleilat, Raylene A. Reimer, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Dr. Natasha Haskey (Poster 5)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia Okanagan (Canada)
The Crohn’s Disease Therapeutic Diet Intervention (CD-TDI) for reducing inflammation in mild-moderately active Crohn’s disease: A preliminary analysis
Natasha Haskey, Andreina Bruno, Hena R. Ramay, Munazza Yousuf, Lorian M. Taylor, Christina Ohland, Kathy D. McCoy, Christopher Ma, Subrata Ghosh, Simona Veniamin, Levinus A. Dieleman, Maitreyi Rama
Courtney Hoskinson (Poster 6)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Delayed gut microbiota maturation in the first year of life as a unifying feature in pediatric allergic disease
Courtney Hoskinson, Darlene L.Y. Dai, Kate L. Del Bel, Allan B. Becker, Theo J. Moraes, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, B. Brett Finlay, Elinor Simons, Anita L. Kozyrskyj, Meghan B. Azad, Padmaja Subbarao, Charisse Petersen, Stuart E. Turvey
Eszter Pal (Poster 45)
Graduate Student, McGill University (Canada)
Cardiac surgery induces sex-specific alterations in the gut microbiome that may hamper post-surgical recovery through a proinflammatory immune response
Eszter Pal, Brandon Shokoples, Yao Lu, Ken Dewar, Jeff Xia, Lorraine Chalifour
Kenny Shin (Poster 46)
MSc Student, University of Ottawa (Canada)
The Utility of long-read 16S rRNA sequencing for species-level bacterial identification of metagenomic samples
Kenny Shin, Peter Dobranowski, Jennifer Li, Alain Stintzi
Dr. Matthew Sorbara (Poster 47)
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph (Canada)
Urease activity enhances survival and regulates the colonization resistance-linked parameters of short-chain fatty acid production and acidification in Lachnospiraceae isolates
Firth I. Fitzgerald B. Sweeney A. Sim M. Sorbara M.T.
Gillian Tanabe (Poster 48)
PhD Student, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Characterization of the Gut Microbiota in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Culturomics Approach
Tanabe, G; Mack, D; Stintzi, A
Dr. Carolyn Thomson (Poster 49)
Research Associate, University of Calgary (Canada)
The shape of things to come: how the maternal microbiota shapes susceptibility to Type 1 Diabetes
Thomson, CA, Brown, K, Davoli-Ferreira, M, Burkhard, R, Pett, NJ, Ohland, CL, Ignacio, AS, Geuking, MB, McCoy, KD
Dr. Weilan Wang (Poster 50)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine (USA)
Anticancer mechanism of dietary restriction of sulfur amino acids
Weilan Wang, Holly Quang, Katie Lu, Cayla Xue, Maryam Tabatabaei, Xia Gao
Poster Presenters
Spencer Abbott (Poster 7)
MSc Student, University of Calgary
Investigating how maternal antibodies modulate T1D outcomes in offspring
Spencer Abbott, Carolyn Thomson, Marcela Davoli-Ferreira, Baweleta Isho, Philippe Poussier, Kathy D. McCoy
Dr. Sima Afsharnezhad (Poster 8)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University
Combination of deep learning and blocking primers provide new insights into the tick microbiome
Sima. Afsharnezhad, Damian Bourne, Zhengxin Sun and Robert I. Colautti
Dr. Shokouh Ahmadi (Poster 9)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Novel auxotrophic Bacteroides models for transient colonization of germ-free mice
Shokouh Ahmadi, Sharon Dong, Carolyn A. Thomson, Isla Skalosky, Philip Ahern, Mohammed E. Dwidar, Kathy D. McCoy, Markus B. Geuking
Nazanin Arjomand-Fard (Poster 10)
PhD Student, University of Alberta
Biofilms in the appendix and other non-inflamed sections of the colon in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel diseases
Nazanin Arjomand Fard, Michael Bording-Jorgensen, Jesse Webb, Simona Veniamin, Christopher Cheng, Troy Perry, Eytan Wine
Jérémie Auger (Poster 12)
Bioinformatician, Lallemand
Group comparisons for multivariate datasets. The case of the microbiome.
Jérémie Auger
Abimbola Badejo (Poster 13)
Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary
To Supplement or Not? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Biotic Supplementation on Infant Behaviors.
Matin, M., Brockway, M., Badejo, A., Kouroupis, A., Janke, R., and Keys, E.
Sahar Bagheri (Poster 14)
Bioinformatics Specialist, University of Calgary
Differences in human fecal sample processing impact microbiome studies
Sahar Bagheri, Paloma Cavalcante, Hena Ramay, Olabisi Coker, Christina Ohland, Kathy McCoy and Laura K. Sycuro
Delaney Barth (Poster 15)
Graduate Student, University of Calgary
Sex-specific differences in the gut microbiome and metabolome at 3 months of age
Delaney Barth, Marcel van de Wouw, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen, Catherine Lebel, Gerald Giesbrecht
Dr. Evandro Beraldi (Poster 16)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Depletion of gut microbiota accelerates disease progression in the TDP43 mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Evandro J. Beraldi, Sukyoung Lee, Oluwamolakun Bankole, Yulan Jiang, Catherine M. Keenan, Kathy D. McCoy, Gerald Pfeffer, Keith A. Sharkey, Minh Dang Nguyen
Dr. Dominique Bihan (Poster 17)
Senior Scientist, University of Calgary
Calgary Metabolomic Research Facility: Canada’s national hub for microbiome metabolomics.
Dominique G. Bihan, Marija Drikic, Ryan Groves, Mohammad M. Banoei, Sharanya Menon, Kirsty Brown, Joseph Wang, Kathy D. McCoy, and Ian A. Lewis
Dr. Kirsty Brown (Poster 18)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Exploring the Impact of Bacterial Colonization on Intestinal Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
Kirsty Brown, Marco Gallo, Kathy McCoy
Dr. Larissa Celiberto (Poster 19)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
Intestinal mucus: regulating resistance to gut bacterial infection and dysbiosis
Larissa S. Celiberto, Kirk Bergstrom, Wesley Zandberg, Lijun Xia, Hongbing Yu, Bruce A. Vallance
Catherine Chan (Poster 20)
Research Technician, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
A customizable stool ex vivo assay for detecting microbiome and metabolic changes in the gut
Catherine S. Chan, Bernice Wong, Christine McCulloch, Larissa Celiberto, Bruce A. Vallance, Ho Pan Sham
Diana Changirwa (Poster 21)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Gastrointestinal colonization by Candida albicans modulates systemic host defence in sepsis
Diana Changirwa, Amanda Zucoloto, Katrina Yu, and Braedon McDonald
Leah D’Aloisio (Poster 22)
MSc Student, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Underrepresented populations in gut microbiome research: exploring changes in the gut microbiome of Indian immigrants in Canada
Leah D. D’Aloisio, Natasha Haskey, Nijitai Abulizi, Carson McComb, Mekenna Smith, Jacqueline Barnett, Vignesh Shetty, Ushasi Bhaumik, Mamatha Ballal, Hemanta Koley, Sanjoy Ghosh & Deanna L. Gibson
Darlene Dai (Poster 23)
PhD Student, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Breastfeeding enrichment of B. longum subsp. infantis mitigates the effect of antibiotics on the microbiota and childhood asthma risk
Darlene L.Y. Dai, Charisse Petersen, Courtney Hoskinson, Kate L. Del Bel, Allan B. Becker, Theo J. Moraes, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, B. Brett Finlay, Elinor Simons, Anita L. Kozyrskyj, David M. Patrick, Padmaja Subbarao, Lars Bode, Meghan B. Azad, Stuart E. Turvey
Dr. Marcela Davoli-Ferreira (Poster 24)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Investigating the role of human commensal bacteria in promoting autism spectrum disorder
Marcela Davoli-Ferreira, Lukas Mager, Aline Ignacio, Kirsty Brown, Fernanda Castanheira, Carolyn Thomson, Jenine Yee, Linda Ward, Thomas Louie, Markus B. Geuking, Kathy D. McCoy
Dr. Vanessa DeClercq (Poster 25)
Research Associate, Dalhousie University
Oral microbial signatures associated with age and frailty in Canadian adults.
Vanessa DeClercq, Jacob T Nearing, Morgan GI Langille
Dr. Dhwani Desai (Poster 26)
Bioinformatics Specialist, Dalhousie University
Visualising Taxa-Function relationships from meta-omic data
Dhwani K. Desai, André Comeau, Morgan G.I. Langille
Pedro Dimitriu (Poster 27)
Head of Research and Senior Director, Bioinformatics, Microbiome Insights
Exploring multi-omics Integration for characterizing microbial-based products used in biotechnology applications
Pedro Dimitriu, Erick Cardenas, Ben Tantika, Gord Stewart, Bill Mohn Malcolm Kendall
Liz-Audrey Djomnang (Poster 28)
Graduate Student, Cornell University
Urinary cell-free DNA is an informative bio-analyte to measure the dynamics of the urinary microbiome after kidney transplantation.
Liz-Audrey Djomnang, Omary Mzava, Lars Westblade, John R. Lee, Manikkam Suthanthiran, Darshana Dadhania, Iwijn De Vlaminck
Peter Dobranowski (Poster 29)
PhD Student, University of Ottawa
Individualized ex vivo resistant starch fermentation by pediatric inflammatory bowel disease patient microbiomes
Peter Dobranowski, Haonan Duan, Mais Jubouri, Alex Dewar, Adrian Beltran, Krystal Walker, Leyuan Li, James Butcher, Janice Mayne, Ruth Singleton, David Mack, Daniel Figeys, Alain Stintzi
Breenna Dobson (Poster 30)
MSc Student, University of Calgary
Sexual Dimorphism of Disease Severity in Sepsis is Independent of the Gut Microbiota
Breenna Dobson, Katrina Yu, Braedon McDonald
Toluwatise Ehindero (Poster 31)
Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary
Re-defining Candida albicans colonization of the lungs in critical illness: friend or foe?
Toluwatise Ehindero, Diana Changirwa, Katrina Yu, Christina Thornton, and Braedon McDonald
Dr. Han Fang (Poster 32)
Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University
Microbial D-lactate contributes to host blood glucose metabolism
Han Fang, Fernando F. Anhê, Breanne McAlpin, Jonathan D. Schertzer
Zhi Yi Fang (Poster 33)
PhD Student, Queen’s University
Networks of co-occurring human milk microbiota are associated with host genomics and the development of childhood atopy and asthma in the CHILD Cohort Study
Zhi Yi Fang, Sara A. Stickley, Amirthagowri Ambalavanan, Yang Zhang, Kelsey Fehr, Shirin Moossavi, Charisse Petersen, Stuart E. Turvey, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Elinor Simons, Theo J. Moraes, Malcolm R. Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Meghan B. Azad, Qingling Duan
Bradey Fitzgerald (Poster 34)
MSc Student, University of Guelph
Variable Resistance of Lachnospiraceae Isolates to Intestinal Stressors
Bradley Fitzgerald, Autumn Sweeney and Matthew Sorbara
Dr. Fabien Franco (Poster 35)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Regulatory circuits of mitophagy restrict cell death for mounting memory CD8+ T cell formation
Fabien Franco, Alessio Bevilacqua, Ruey-Mei Wu, Chun-Pu Lin, Lorène Rousseau, Fu-Ti Peng, Yu-Ming Chuang, Jhan-Jie Peng, Jaeoh Park, Yingxi Xu, Kung-Chi Kao, Antonino Cassotta, Yi-Ru Yu, Daniel E. Speiser, Federica Sallusto and Ping-Chih H
Dr. Thaís Glatthardt (Poster 36)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Malassezia restricta Gut Colonization Impacts Lung Immune Responses to Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Thaís Glatthardt, Erik van Tilburg Bernardes, Mackenzie Gutierrez, Leanne Bilawchuk, David Marchant, Eugenia Corrales Aguilar, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Dr. Simon Hirota (Poster 37)
Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Gut-residing bacteria can shape host drug metabolism in the small intestine through an innate lymphoid cell-IL-22 driven axis
Kyle L Flannigan, Michael Johnston, Sarah L Erickson, Kristoff M Nieves, Humberto Jijon, Marco Gallo, Kathy D McCoy, Simon A Hirota
Dr. Aline Ignacio (Poster 38)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Investigating the role of intestinal commensal bacteria in reprogramming intestinal macrophage
Aline Ignacio, Sonia Czyz, Marcela Davoli Ferreira, Kathy McCoy
Maira Jiménez-Sanchez (Poster 39)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia
Exposing the skin to UVB light modulates the intestinal microbiota
Maira Jiménez, Hyungjun Yang, Jan Dutz, Bruce A. Vallance
Wasif Khan (Poster 41)
PhD Student, University of Manitoba
A cross-cohort analysis of dental plaque microbiome to identify common biomarkers in early childhood caries
Mohd Wasif Khan, Daryl Fung Lerh Xing, Robert J. Schroth, Prashen Chelikani, Pingzhao Hu
Dr. Yeganeh Khaniani (Poster 42)
Research Associate, University of Calgary
Revealing Metabolite Consumption and Production Pattern in Bacterial Species using LC-MS Profiling
Yeganeh Khaniani, Soren Wacker, Gopal Ramamourthy, Ryan Groves, Thomas Rydzak, Ian A. Lewis
Reihane Khorasaniha (Poster 43)
PhD Student, University of Manitoba
Consumption of β-fructan fibers changes significantly during disease flare in inflammatory bowel disease patients, associated with altered gut microbiota
Reihane Khorasaniha, Ismaila Ba, Juan Jovel, Kathy Vagianos, Cassandra Dolovich, Michael Sargent, Kevin McGregor, Charles N Bernstein, Heather K. Armstrong
Pardis Kiani (Poster 44)
MSc Student, University of Calgary
Brain-first versus Body-first: Exploring aspects of gut microbiota in Parkinson’s disease
Pardis Kiani, Marcela Davoli Ferreira, Kathy McCoy
Dr. Larisa Kovtonyuk (Poster 51)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
The role of intestinal microbiome in CD19 directed CAR T cell therapy
Larisa V. Kovtonyuk, Sacha Benaudia, Douglas Mahoney, Kathy D. McCoy
Samuel Lawal (Poster 52)
MSc Student, University of Manitoba
Changes in microbiota composition and functions (enzymes) correlate with changes in dietary β-fructan fibre consumption patterns during IBD disease progression from remission to flare
Samuel A. Lawal, Reihane Khorasaniha, Ismaila Ba, Juan Jovel, Ramsha Mahmood, Richard Miller, Athalia Voisin, Kevin McGregor, Charles N. Bernstein, Heather K. Armstrong
Dr. Karen Lithgow (Poster 53)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Secreted Proteases from Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacteria Activate Human MMPs and Modulate Endocervical Barrier Function
Karen V. Lithgow, Antoine Dufour, Laura K. Sycuro
Dana Lowry (Poster 54)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Maternal gut microbiota transplantation in germ-free mice partially replicates offspring phenotype
Dana E. Lowry, Erin W. Noye Tuplin, Kate M. Sales, Melissa Biddle, Kathy D. McCoy, Raylene A. Reimer
Yao Lu (Poster 55)
PhD Student, McGill University
MicrobiomeAnalyst 2.0: comprehensive statistical, functional and integrative analysis of microbiome data
Yao Lu, Guangyan Zhou, Jessica Ewald, Zhiqiang Pang, Tanisha Shiri, Jianguo Xia
Madeline Mellet (Poster 56)
MSc Student, University of Calgary
Development of a primary intestinal mesenchymal stromal cell culture to assess microbially induced inflammatory mediators
Madeline Mellett, Kirsty Brown, Kathy D. McCoy
Emily Mercer (Poster 57)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome are associated with interkingdom dynamics and nutrition
Emily Mercer, Hena Ramay, Allan Becker, Elinor Simons, Piushkumar Mandhane, Stuart Turvey, Theo Moraes6 Malcolm Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Meghan Azad & Marie-Claire Arrieta
Dr. Selene Meza-Perez (Poster 58)
Instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gut microbiota impairs anti-tumor immunity by catabolizing arginine
Meza-Perez S, Liu M, Silva-Sanchez A, Morrow CD, Eipers PG, Lefkowitz EJ, Ptacek T, Scharer CD, Arend RC, Gray MJ, Randall TD
Dr. Chunlong Mu (Poster 59)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Microbiome features associated with single and multi-medication use in cardiometabolic disease
Jane Shearer, Shrushti Shah, Grace Shen-Tu, Kristina Schlicht, Nathalie Rohmann, Matthias Laudes, Andre Franke, Chunlong Mu
Kevin Muirhead (Poster 60)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Mechanisms of Lactobacillus dominance and pathogen exclusion in the cervicovaginal niche
Kevin Muirhead, Karen V. Lithgow, Shaelen Konschuh, Nelly R. Mugo, Alison C. Roxby and Laura K. Sycuro
Hana Olof (Poster 61)
MSc Student, University of Manitoba
Changes in cooking temperature and gut microenvironment pH can impact dietary fiber composition, in turn impacting interactions with gut microbiota and gut immune cells.
Hana Olof, Samuel A. Lawal, Jun Gao, Xinyun Liu, Ramsha Mahmood, Thava Vasanthan, Heather K. Armstrong
Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Poster 62)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Early-life Temporal Dynamics of the Human Gut Microbial Diversity, Composition and Co-occurrence Networks in a Rural District Setting
M. Parizadeh, I. Laforest-Lapointe, A. Valdez-Salazar, P. Morán-Silva, L. Rojas-Velázquez, J. Torres, C. Ximénez-García, M.C. Arrieta
Dr. Sarah Piché-Choquette (Poster 64)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal
Joint Species Distribution Modeling of the contribution of the microbiome to asthma risk in premature infants
Sarah Piché-Choquette, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Steven Kembel
Erika Prando Munhoz (Poster 65)
Laboratory Technician, University of Calgary
Evaluating the liver immune environment in a preclinical model of pathobiont accelerated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Erika Prando Munhoz, Carolyn A. Thomson, Henry H. Nguyen
Dr. Charlène Roussel (Poster 66)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Laval
Exploring the ex vivo effects of stearidonic acid (SDA)-rich Ahiflower oil on the gut microbiota of individual humans and their capacity to produce SDA-derived N-stearidonoyl ethanolamine (SDEA)
Charlène Roussel, Mathilde Sola, Nayudu Nallabelli, Frédéric Raymond, Yves Desjardins, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Cristoforo Silvestri
Mahana Sabachvili (Poster 67)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Pathobionts and Precision Medicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Mahana Sabachvili, Carolyn Thomson, Kathy McCoy, Lukas Mager
Maricarmen Salas-López (Poster 68)
Graduate Student, CINVESTAV Mexico
Characterization of the archaeal community of colostrum and fecal samples of Mexican mothers and newborns.
Maricarmen Salas-López, Carmen Josefina Juárez-Castelán, Karina Corona-Cervantes, Alberto PiñaEscobedo, José Manuel Hernández-Hernández, Martín Noé Rangel-Calvillo, Claudia Pérez-Cruz and Jaime García-Mena
Jared Schlechte (Poster 69)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Engraftment of microbiome-immune dysfunction in a humanized microbiota model of critical illness.
Jared Schlechte, Amanda Z Zucoloto, Ian-ling Yu, Braedon McDonald
Shrushti Shah (Poster 70)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Interplay between Gut Microbiota, Tryptophan Metabolites and Hypertension in Perimenopausal Women
Shrushti Shah, Chunlong Mu, Grace Shen-Tu, Kristina Schlicht, Nathalie Rohmann, Matthias Laudes, Andre Franke, Harald Köfeler, Jane Shearer
Shrushti Shah (Poster 71)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Physical Activity-Induced Alterations of the Gut Microbiome are BMI-Dependent
Shrushti Shah, Chunlong Mu, Shirin Moossavi, Grace Shen-Tu, Kristina Schlicht, Nathalie Rohmann, Corinna Geisler, Matthias Laudes, Andre Franke, Thomas Züllig, Harald Köfeler, Jane Shearer
Sara Shama (Poster 72)
PhD Student, University of Toronto
Characterizing the Microbiota Shared Between Mother’s Milk and the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant Gut
Sara Shama, Michelle R Asbury, Alex Kiss, Nicole Bando, Amel Taibi, James Butcher, Elena M Comelli, Julia K Copeland, Adrianna Greco, Akash Kothari, Philip M Sherman, Alain Stintzi, Christopher Tomlinson, Sharon Unger, Pauline W Wang, Deborah L O’Connor, for the OptiMoM Feeding Group
Dr. Saif Sikdar (Poster 73)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Microbiome-derived hydroxyphenyl propanoates enhance antitumour immunity
Saif U. Sikdar, Daesun Kim, Franz Zemp, Douglas J. Mahoney
Isla Skalosky (Poster 74)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Impact of Intestinal Microbiota Complexity and Molecualr Mimicry of a Vial Epitope on Anti-viral T Cell Responses
Isla Skalosky, Shokouh Ahmadi, Marcela Davoli Ferreira, Regula Burkhard, and Markus Geuking
Sara Stickley (Poster 75)
PhD Student, Queen’s University
Network clusters of co-occurring gut microbes are associated with childhood atopy and asthma, environmental exposures, and host genomics in the CHILD Cohort Study
Sara A. Stickley, Zhi Y. Fang, Amirthagowri Ambalavanan, Yang Zhang, Charisse Petersen, Darlene Dai, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Elinor Simons, Jeffrey R. Brook, Theo J. Moraes, Malcolm R. Sears, Meghan B. Azad, Stuart E. Turvey, Padmaja Subbarao, Qingling Duan
Dr. Lena Takayasu (Poster 76)
Research Associate, Cornell University
Profiling the dynamics of the gut microbiome in mice at high temporal resolution.
Lena Takayasu
Dr. Marcel van de Wouw (Poster 77)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
The Impact of Prenatal Stress on the Infant Gut Microbiome During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Marcel van de Wouw, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen, Catherine Lebel, Gerald Giesbrech
Erik van Tilburg Bernardes (Poster 78)
PhD Student, University of Calgary
Antibiotic-induced Malassezia spp. expansion in infants elicits intestinal immune dysregulation and increased airway inflammation in mice
Erik van Tilburg Bernardes, Mackenzie W. Gutierrez, Carolyn A. Thomson, Kathy D. McCoy, Stephen B. Freedman, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Dr. Jennifer Vena (Poster 79)
Scientific Director, Alberta Health Services
Microbiome research opportunities in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project, a large prospective cohort study
Jennifer Vena, Shandra Harman, Valez Lumi, Kathleen Murdoch, Wendy Powell, Will Rosner, Grace Shen-Tu & Bud Skiffington
Sasanka Weerasingha (Poster 80)
Graduate Student, University of Ottawa
Identifying resistant starch primary degraders in human gut microbiomes
Sasanka Weerasingha, David Mack, and Alain Stintzi
Logan Wisteard (Poster 81)
MSc Student, Queen’s University
Effect of Feeding Time on Microbiome Community in Engorged Ticks using Nanopore Sequencing
Logan Wisteard, Sima Afsharnezhad, Damian Bourne, Robert I Colautti
Anthony Wong (Poster 82)
Lab Project Coordinator, The Hospital for Sick Children
Characterization of defined fecal-derived microbial consortia from DIABIMMUNE infants: colonization dynamics in a germ free NOD mouse model
Anthony Wong, Zhuohui Lin, Alessandra de Paiva Granato, Christina Ohland, Christopher Yau, Steve Mortin-Toth, Simone Renwick, Emma Allen-Vercoe, Kathy McCoy and Jayne Danska
Dr. Robyn Wright (Poster 83)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
Linking the oral microbiome with child and adolescent mental health
Robyn Wright, Christie Burton, Vanessa DeClercq, Russell Schachar, Morgan Langille and Jennifer Crosbie
Wendy Zhang (Poster 84)
MSc Student, University of Calgary
Discerning Alveolar Macrophage Ontogeny in Mice
Zhang W, Castanheira F, Neupane A, Kubes P.
Dr. Reda Albadawy (Poster 85)
Professor, Benha University (Egypt)
A study whether the status of the generated mRNA – ncRNA network (related to gut microbiota derived mediators is involved in the potential improvement due to the microbiota treatment
Reda Albadawy, Amany Helmy Hasanin, Maha Saad, Mohamed Othman, Marwa Matboli