Having IMPACTT 5:
Advancing Microbiome Research
Sept 22-24, 2025
Selected Abstracts
Selected Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentation
See below for the abstracts selected for oral and poster presentations for our Having IMPACTT 5: Advancing Microbiome Research Symposium on Sept 22-24, 2025 at the Malcolm Hotel in Canmore, AB, Canada.
Presenters
Short Talk Presenters
Session 1: Diet, Microbiome, and Host (Monday, Sept 22, 2025)
Dr. Anissa Armet (+ Poster 40)
Session 3: Microbiome-Immunity Interplay (Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025)
Dr. Marcela Davoli-Ferreira
Dr. Robert Britton
Session 4: Microbial Ecosystems (Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025)
Erica Yeo (+ Poster 79)
Dr. Matthew Stephens
Dr. Jennifer Ronholm
Session 5: Microbiome Interactions in Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Disease (Wednesday, Sept 24, 2025)
Kristoff Nieves
Dr. Gulistan Agirman
Flash Talk Presenters
Flash Talk & Poster Session #1 (Monday, Sept 22, 2025)
Garrett Ainsworth-Cruickshank (Poster 1)
Dr. Eric Armstrong (Poster 2)
Ramya Balasubramanian (Poster 3)
Dr. Vanessa DeClercq (Poster 4)
Muhammad Fakher Ud Din (Poster 5)
Maeva Duquesnoy (Poster 6)
Flash Talk & Poster Session #2 (Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025)
Zhixuan Feng (Poster 41)
Dr. Katherine Kennedy (Poster 42)
Ariel Kim (Poster 43)
Ali Nabavi Rad (Poster 44)
Shokufeh Sorboni (Poster 45)
Udeshi Wickramarachchige (Poster 46)
Poster Presenters
Poster Session #1 (Monday, Sept 22, 2025)
Spencer Abbott (Poster 7)
Shirin Afroj (Poster 8)
Dr. Babita Agrawal (Poster 9)
Imtiaz Ahmad (Poster 10)
Duha AlAwad (Poster 11)
Dr. Amanda Araujo Serrao de Andrade (Poster 12)
Joan Argwings-Kodhek & Luke Pontoriero (Poster 13)
Dr. Michelle Asbury (Poster 14)
Muhammad Aslam (Poster 15)
Nour Elhouda Bouhlel (Poster 16)
Dr. Meredith (Merilee) Brockway (Poster 17)
Darlene Dai (Poster 18)
Dr. Francisco Daniel Davila Aleman (Poster 19)
Brian Deng (Poster 20)
Davis Dickson (Poster 21)
Dollina Dodani (Poster 22)
Dr. Katrina Ellestad (Poster 23)
Dr. Galal Esmail (Poster 24)
Dr. Aline Ignacio (Poster 25)
Dr. Xiaofan Jin (Poster 26)
Raman Kapoor (Poster 27)
Dr. Annegret Ulke-Lemée (Poster 28)
Arshdeep Kaur (Poster 29)
Dajana Lleshi (Poster 30)
Dr. Cheng Long (Poster 31)
Dr. Colin MacKenzie (Poster 32)
Christine Maynard (Poster 33)
Ailidh McGonigle (Poster 34)
Madeline Mellett (Poster 35)
Md Moniruzzaman (Poster 36)
Kevin Muirhead (Poster 37)
Dr. William Nguyen (Poster 38)
Noel Ong (Poster 39)
Dr. Anissa Armet (Poster 40)
Poster Session #2 (Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025)
Dr. Thaís Glatthardt (Poster 47)
Jennifer C. Onuora (Poster 48)
Dr. Purvikalyan Pallegar (Poster 49)
Grace Parish (Poster 50)
Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Poster 51)
Michelle Park (Poster 52)
Kaetlyn Phillips (Poster 53)
Amanda Piano (Poster 54)
Dr. Leila Rezaei (Poster 55)
Dorian Rojas Villalta (Poster 56)
Marine Rullier (Poster 57)
Mahana Sabachvili (Poster 58)
Rehnuma Tabassum Sejuty (Poster 59)
Dr. Shrushti Shah (Poster 60)
Amy Shupe (Poster 61)
Tara Signorelli (Poster 62)
Dr. Andrea Silverj (Poster 63)
Usha Sivakumar Sharma (Poster 64)
Isla Skalosky (Poster 65)
Dr. Atena Sadat Sombolestani (Poster 66)
Apsara Srinivas (Poster 67)
Kathryn Strayer (Poster 68)
Niklas Tappauf (Poster 69)
Albina Tskhay (Poster 70)
Mitchell Van Den Bosch (Poster 71)
Dr. Juan Velez-Ixta (Poster 72)
Dr. Brendan Whitman (Poster 73)
Ayesha Wijesinghe (Poster 74)
Geoff Winsor (Poster 75)
Dr. Hyungjun Yang (Poster 76)
Dr. Kelsey Huus (Poster 77)
Aqsa Mohammed (Poster 78)
Erica Yeo (Poster 79)
Asha Octoman (Poster 80)
Xi Ying (Sally) Zhou (Poster 81)
Abstracts
Short Talk Presenters
Dr. Anissa Armet (Poster 40)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta | Canada
Crohn Disease Exclusion Diet Plus Partial Enteral Nutrition Induces Long-Term Microbiome Changes Compared to Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Pediatric Patients with Crohn Disease
Anissa M. Armet, Rotem Sigall-Boneh, Lingxuan Luo, Víctor Manuel Navas-López, Seamus Hussey, Gemma Pujol Muncunill, Sally Lawrence, Helena Jonsson Rolandsdotter, Anthony Otley, Javier Martín-de-Carpi, Fuyong Li, Johan Van Limbergen, Eytan Wine
Dr. Marcela Davoli-Ferreira
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
ASD-associated gut bacteria shape early-life neurodevelopment and social behavior in a genetically susceptible host
Marcela Davoli-Ferreira, Lukas Mager, Aline Ignacio, Kirsty Brown, Fernanda V.S. Castanheira, Carolyn Thomson, Saher Raouf, Thomas Louie, Markus B. Geuking, Kathy D. McCoy
Dr. Robert Britton
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine | USA
Functional impact of early life microbiomes on behavior and cognition
FS Midani, KF Tolias, DM Murray, ME Kiely, RA Britton, HA Danhof
Erica Yeo (Poster 79)
PhD Candidate, McMaster University | Canada
Pregnancy alters gut microbial function without consistent compositional changes
Erica Yeo, Laura Rossi, Michael G. Surette, Deborah M. Sloboda
Dr. Matthew Stephens
Research Associate, University of Calgary | Canada
ESKAPE this: Generation of Functional DNA Aptamers Targeting ESKAPE pathogen AMRs
Matthew Stephens, Colin MacKenzie, Jaida Fuder & Braedon McDonald
Dr. Jennifer Ronholm
Associate Professor, McGill University | Canada
Elimination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes from the Microbiome of Dairy Cattle using a Conjugative Probiotic Powered by CRISPR-Cas9
Dongyun Jung, Nancy Allard, Amelie Doucet, Bridget O’Brien, Alla Yushenko, Haijiao Lin, Xin Zhao, Lawerence Goodridge, David Kelton, David L. Renaud, Sebastien Rodrigue, Jennifer Ronholm
Kristoff Nieves
PhD Student, University College Cork | Ireland
Microbiome-dependent modulation of neuroinflammation in an EBNA1-driven mouse model of multiple sclerosis
Kristoff Nieves, David Zelaya, Jonathan Keane, Ambika Mulukutla, Namrata Iyer, Valentine Turpin, Maria Aburto, and Jens Walter
Dr. Gulistan Agirman
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles | USA
The microbial metabolite imidazole propionate modulates hypothalamic activity and stress induced behaviors
Gulistan Agirman, Michael N.B. Quicho, Xiaobei Zhang, Jonathan B. Lynch, Sung Min Ha, Heidi M. Schmidt, Kaden Connelley, Angela Liang, Kristie B. Yu, Ezgi Özcan, In Sook Ahn, Cheng Qian, Jorge Paramo, Adriana Espinoza, Thomas Q. de Aguiar Vallim, Xia Yang, Arpana Church, Elaine Y. Hsiao
Flash Talk Presenters
Garrett Ainsworth-Cruickshank (Poster 1)
MSc Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Evaluating Minocycline as a Modulator of Microbiome and Immune Function in a Model of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
G. Ainsworth-Cruickshank, V. Billy, L. Wegener Parfrey, J. Weinberg, C. Raineki, and T. S. Bodnar
Dr. Eric Armstrong (Poster 2)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute | Canada
Gut microbial ecology is a stronger correlate of post-antibiotic resistome burden than antibiotic exposure class
Eric Armstrong, Maria Kulikova, Noelle Yee, Asgar Rishu, John Muscedere, Stephanie Sibley, David Maslove, J. Gordon Boyd, Gerald Evans, Michael Detsky, John Marshall, Linda R. Taggart, Jan O. Friedrich, Jennifer L.Y. Tsang, Erick Duan, Karim Ali Firdous, David McCullagh, Aidan Findlater, Rob Fowler, Nick Daneman, Bryan Coburn
Ramya Balasubramanian (Poster 3)
PhD Student University College Cork | Ireland
Multiomic assessment of neuromodulatory potential of fermented food
Ramya Balasubramanian, Thomaz Bastiaanssen, John F. Leech, John F. Cryan, Paul Cotter
Dr. Vanessa DeClercq (Poster 4)
Research Associate, Dalhousie University | Canada
Challenges in acquiring reliable microbiome profiles from blood and tumour samples
Vanessa DeClercq, André M. Comeau, Rowan Murphy, Robyn Wright, Alison Wallace, Morgan GI Langille
Muhammad Fakher Ud Din (Poster 5)
PhD Student, Macquarie University | Australia
Comparison of microbiome and O-glycome profiles from colonic mucus and faeces of mice
Muhammad Din, Hasinika Gamage, Miguel Castaneda, Jessica Simpson, Di Wang, Mark Molloy, Nicki Packer, and Ian Paulsen
Maeva Duquesnoy (Poster 6)
PhD Student, Institut Pasteur | France
Role of the intestinal microbiota in inter-individual variations in response to Influenza vaccination
Maeva Duquesnoy, Soha Szgairy, Clara Delaroque, Sondra Turjeman, Omry Koren, Benoit Chassaing
Zhixuan Feng (Poster 41)
PhD Student, McGill University | Canada
Uncovering Antagonistic Strategies of Gram-Negative Bacteria in the Chicken Gut: Ecological Insights into Microbial Competition
Zhixuan Feng, Natalia Lorenc, Bridget O’Brien, Guangwen Sun, Zhiwei Li, Dongyun Jung, Valérie Dagenais, Valérie Leclerc, Clara Pigozzo, Jennifer Ronholm
Dr. Katherine Kennedy (Poster 42)
Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University | Canada
Maternal parity shapes infant gut microbiome community structure and stability from birth to three years of age
Katherine M. Kennedy, Julia C. Simioni, Eileen K. Hutton, Katherine M. Morrison, Michael G. Surette, and the Baby & Mi Research Team
Ariel Kim (Poster 43)
PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Constructing an organ-on-a-chip model of the human lung microbiome to study non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB)
Ariel Kim, Simran Deo, Colin MacKenzie, Christina Thornton, Mark Gillrie
Ali Nabavi Rad (Poster 44)
MSc Student, University of Alberta | Canada
Donor microbiota induced complement component 3 (C3) production follows fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI)
Ali Nabavi Rad, Mohamed Shaheen, Chelsea McDougall, Rose Franz, Karen Wong, Dina Kao
Shokufeh Sorboni (Poster 45)
Graduate Student, University of British Columbia | Canada
Using Fasting to Reveal Critical Host-Microbiota Interactions at the Colonic Mucosal Surface
Shokufeh Sorboni, Larissa Celiberto, Hyungjun Yang, Ho Pan Sham, Bruce Vallance
Udeshi Wickramarachchige (Poster 46)
Graduate Student, Pennsylvania State University | USA
Role of the Gut Microbiome in Modulating Host Liver Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-α (PPARα) Activities
Udeshi I. Wickramarachchige, Xiaoyang Zhu, Kyle J. Oldro, Angelina R. Kramer, Stephanie D. Carson, Mia J. Perry, Allison M. Vilasi, Taylor James, Fuhua Hao, Jordan E. Bisanz, Andrew D. Patterson, Frank J. Gonzalez, Jeffrey M. Peters
Poster Presenters
Spencer Abbott (Poster 7)
PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Characterizing Host-Pathobionts Interactions in a Subset of IBD Patients
Spencer Abbott, Mahana Sabachvili, Lukas Mager, Maitreyi Raman, Kathy D. McCoy
Shirin Afroj (Poster 8)
Laboratory Technician, University of Calgary | Canada
A massively parallel culturing platform to identify antibiotic potentiators from the natural products of microbiota
Rahgavi Poopalarajah, Andrew J. Flewelling, Shirin Afroj, Ben Rowley, Kevin C. Sule, Nathan McCartney, Yanqi Li, Carina Thomas, Shannon Pyke, Emma J. Griffiths, Craig Brideau, Barbara Waddell , Michael D. Parkins, John M. Conly, Ayush Kumar, Pina Colarusso, Elmar J. Prenner, William Hsiao, Kathy D. McCoy, Douglas J. Mahoney, Zajeba Tabashsum, Jamie D. Liu, Michelle Angeles-Solano, Sarah E. Rowe, Darren J. Derksen, Joe J. Harrison
Dr. Babita Agrawal (Poster 9)
Professor, University of Alberta | Canada
Understanding the interaction of a non-infectious, non-pathogenic bacterial species with gut epithelium and its role in ameliorating chronic inflammatory diseases
Babita Agrawal, Nancy Gupta, Maria Morar, Raj S. Patel, Jie Li, and Rakesh Kumar
Imtiaz Ahmad (Poster 10)
PhD Student, University of Alberta | Canada
In Vitro Antimicrobial Potential of Selected Lactic Acid Bacteria Against Bovine-Associated Pathogens
Imtiaz Ahmad, Benjamin Willing, Burim N. Ametaj
Duha AlAwad (Poster 11)
Research Assistant, University of British Columbia | Canada
Exploring the relationship between the infant gut microbiome and neurodevelopment in CHILD Cohort
Duha AlAwad, Darlene Dai, Charisse Petersen, Theo J. Moraes, Elinor Simons, Meghan B. Azad, Padmaja Subbarao, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Stuart E. Turvey
Dr. Amanda Araujo Serrao de Andrade (Poster 12)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Viral Biogeography of the Human Body Analyzed through RNA-seq and Single-Cell Public Data
Amanda Araujo Serrao de Andrade, Ann C. Gregory
Joan Argwings-Kodhek & Luke Pontoriero (Poster 13)
Undergraduate Students, Pepperdine University | USA
Association between the human breast microbiome and immune genes in breast cancer
Joan Argwings-Kodhek, Luke Pontoriero, Nairi Parsekyan, Rachel Yutong Jiang, Lindsey Marian, Leah T. Stiemsma
Dr. Michelle Asbury (Poster 14)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Respiratory Support and Human Milk Modify the Engraftment Potential of Bifidobacterium-Based Probiotics in Preterm Infants
Michelle R. Asbury, Emily Mercer, Oyinda Obigbesan, Shannon Senanayake, Sarah Piché-Choquette, Belal Alshaikh, Laura Sycuro, Steve W. Kembel, Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Muhammad Aslam (Poster 15)
Graduate Student, University of Alberta | Canada
The impact of tryptophan microbial metabolites on Citrobacter rodentium virulence and infection
Muhammad Aslam, Rajibur Rahman, Cheng Long, Michelle Park, Benjamin P Willing
Nour Elhouda Bouhlel (Poster 16)
PhD Student, University of Ottawa | Canada
From Gut Microbiome to Depression: Tracing Causality and Identifying Putative Microbial Biomarkers in a Depressed Tunisian Cohort
Nour Elhouda Bouhlel, Galal Esmail, Walid Mottawea, Mouna Mrad, Nadia Jaidane, Thouraya Annabi Attia, Sana Azeiez, Rym Ghachem, Wejdene Mansour, and Riadh Hammami
Dr. Meredith (Merilee) Brockway (Poster 17)
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary | Canada
Donor human milk compared formula supplementation on microbiome development in vaginally born, full-term infants exposed to antibiotics during labour: A pilot randomized controlled trial
Meredith (Merilee) Brockway, Yasmeen Khalil, Heather C Rusi, Michelle R Asbury, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Elizabeth Keys, Christine Ou, Jannette Festival
Darlene Dai (Poster 18)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia | Canada
Breastfeeding limits the adverse impact of socioeconomic status on child health by modifying the infant gut microbiome
Darlene L.Y. Dai, Melissa B. Manus, Courtney Hoskinson, Jie Jiang, Hind Sbihi, Kozeta Miliku, Susan C. Campisi, Daphne J. Korczak, Qingling Duan, Theo J. Moraes, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, B. Brett Finlay, Elinor Simons, Hannah Lishman, David M. Patrick, Padmaja Subbarao, Meghan B. Azad, Bo Chawes, Klaus Bønnelykke, Søren Johannes Sørensen, Jonathan Thorsen, Jakob Stokholm, Charisse Petersen, Stuart E. Turvey
Dr. Francisco Daniel Davila Aleman (Poster 19)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Widespread prevalence of novel alkane degrading bacteria unique to the Arctic Ocean
María A. Bautista, Francisco D. Davila-Aleman, Smruthi Karthikeyan, Michael D. Stone, Brent G. Else, Kostantinos T. Konstantinidis, Srijak Bhatnagar and Casey R.J. Hubert
Brian Deng (Poster 20)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia | Canada
Bowel preparation promotes pathogen colonization, translocation and exacerbation of inflammation in mouse and in vitro models
Brian D. Deng, Charlotte A. Clayton, Imogen Porter, Apsara Srinivas, Claire Sie, Jerry Y. He, Alexander Pei, Carolina Tropini
Davis Dickson (Poster 21)
Graduate Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Engineering probiotics to specifically capture adherent-invasive Escherichia coli
Davis Dickson and Xiaofan Jin
Dollina Dodani (Poster 22)
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia | Canada
Multicohort development and validation of a reproducible vaginal microbiome model for endometrial cancer detection
Dollina Dodani and Aline Talhouk
Dr. Katrina Ellestad (Poster 23)
Research Associate, University of Calgary | Canada
WiMIC – Where the Wild makes it Real – Integrating Microbial Diversity into Immune Studies
Katrina Ellestad, Fabien Franco, Shaunna Huston, Paul Kubes, Kathy McCoy
Dr. Galal Esmail (Poster 24)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa | Canada
NutriCol: A Realistic Fermentation Medium Reflecting Western Diet Fiber Composition for In Vitro Gut Microbiome Studies
Galal Ali Esmail, Ophélie Uriot, Walid Mottawea, Sylvain Denis, Salma Sultan, Emmanuel N. Njoku, Mariem Chiba, Susan Tosh, Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot, Riadh Hammami
Dr. Aline Ignacio (Poster 25)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Investigating the role of intestinal commensal bacteria in innate memory induction
Aline Ignacio, Marcela Davoli Ferreira, Line Wulff, Sonia Czyz, Larisa Kovtonyuk, Kathy McCoy
Dr. Xiaofan Jin (Poster 26)
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary | Canada
An integrated experimental-bioinformatic workflow to track spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics in synthetic microbial communities
Xiaofan Jin, Feiqiao Brian Yu, Katherine Pollard
Raman Kapoor (Poster 27)
Chief Health Span Officer, BioAro Inc. | Canada
Comparative Analysis of Vaginal Microbiota: Lactobacillus crispatus and Its Reduced Prevalence in Asian Cohorts
Preethi Balasundaram, Kirti Dubli, Rinku Chaudhari, Maneesha Suba, Mishal Tariq, Raman Kapoor, Casey Hubert, Raja Singh, Anmol Kapoor, Minal BorkarTripathi
Dr. Annegret Ulke-Lemée (Poster 28)
CMRF Project Coordinator, Calgary Metabolomics Research Facility | Canada
Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for detecting and quantifying bile acids in biological specimens
Annegret Ulke-Lemée, Dominique Bihan, William Nguyen, Mackenzie W Gutierrez, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Adriana Zardini Buzatto, Ian A. Lewis
Arshdeep Kaur (Poster 29)
Graduate Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Characterizing and Modelling Regenerative Disruptions in the Gut During Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Arshdeep Kaur, Humberto Jijon, Gurmeet Bindra, Joshua Lee, Anneke Korver, Sarah Vancuren, Alexander Botschner, Emma Allen-Vercoe, Arshad Ayyaz
Dajana Lleshi (Poster 30)
Graduate Student, University of Alberta | Canada
In vitro antimicrobial potential of selected lactic acid bacteria against Trueperella pyogenes and Fusobacterium necrophorum
Dajana Lleshi, Benjamin Willing, B. Ametaj
Dr. Cheng Long (Poster 31)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta | Canada
Gut microbiota from people with multiple sclerosis reduces protective tryptophan metabolite production in mice
Cheng Long, Min Liu, Rajibur Rahman,Yi Fan, Usha Sivakumar Sharma, Benjamin P Willing
Dr. Colin MacKenzie (Poster 32)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Rapid point-of-care microbiome sequencing from critically ill patients for precision medicine microbial therapeutics
Colin MacKenzie, Jared Schlechte, Aydin Herik, Ian-Ling Yu, William W.L. Hsiao, Christina Thornton, Braedon McDonald
Christine Maynard (Poster 33)
Genomic Research Scientist, Rosell® Institute for Microbiome and Probiotics | Canada
Exploring Vaginal Community State Types: A Dual Approach with Metagenomic and 16S Sequencing
Christine Maynard, Olivier Mathieu, Amanda Piano, Marie-Laure Oula, Stéphane Bronner, and Sylvie Binda
Ailidh McGonigle (Poster 34)
MSc Student, University of Calgary | Canada
The Impact of the Microbiota on T cell development
Ailidh McGonigle, Shokouh Ahmadi Dehaghi, Isla Skalosky, Markus Geuking
Madeline Mellett (Poster 35)
MD/PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Defining microbiome-driven immune roles of intestinal stromal cells
Madeline Mellett, Kirsty Brown, Kathy D. McCoy
Md Moniruzzaman (Poster 36)
PhD Student, University of Manitoba | Canada
Microbiome and Resistome within a First Nation Community and its Surrounding Aquatic Ecosystem in Manitoba, Canada
Md Moniruzzaman, Sobur Ali, Jerome Fung, Miguel Uyaguari
Kevin Muirhead (Poster 37)
PhD Candidate, University of Calgary | Canada
Classification of fructosyltransferases and the production of prebiotic fructooligosaccharides in vaginal Lactobacillus species
Kevin Muirhead, Tiana Sajic, Shaelen Konschuh, and Laura K. Sycuro
Dr. William Nguyen (Poster 38)
Research Associate, University of Calgary | Canada
Candida albicans Drives Obesity Resistance through Increased Thermogenesis in Adipose tissue and Decreased Gut Lipid Absorption
William Nguyen, Mackenzie W. Gutierrez, Ellen Ren, Ethan Willms, Chunlong Mu, Erik van Tilburg Bernardes, William Nguyen, Thaís Glatthardt, Blanca Callejas-Pina, Simon A. Hirota, Jane Shearer, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Noel Ong (Poster 39)
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto | Canada
Exploring the Role of Microbiota in Cancer Development in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Noel Wei Yang Ong, Camilla Giovino, Nicholas Fischer, Paula R. Quaglietta, Ashby Kissoondoyal, David Malkin
Dr. Thaís Glatthardt (Poster 47)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Influence of Malassezia restricta gut colonization early in life on oral tolerance development
Thaís Glatthardt, Katarina MacConnell, Kaetlyn Phillips, William Nguyen, Emily Mercer, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Jennifer C. Onuora (Poster 48)
PhD Student, University of Toronto | Canada
Interrelationships between the infant fecal microbiota and maternal microbiota from various body sites
Jennifer C. Onuora, Huma Qamar, Lisa G. Pell, Diego G. Bassani, Aline C. Freitas, Anna Neustaeter, Antonio Gonzalez, Daniel McDonald, Davidson H. Hamer, Iqbal Hossain, Mahbubul Hoque, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Prakesh S. Shah, Rashidul Haque, Samir K. Saha, Shafiqul A. Sarker, Shamima Sultana, Shaun K. Morris, Rob Knight, Daniel E. Roth
Dr. Purvikalyan Pallegar (Poster 49)
CTO/Cofounder, Nucliq Biologics Inc. | Canada
Gut Microbiome Insights Across Canada: Demographic and Clinical Trends in Gut Health and IBD Risk from Over 1000 Participants
Farida Samad-zada, Shazia Janwari, Luke Bown, Purvikalyan Pallegar, Nikitha Kendyala, Lourdes Peña-Castillo
Grace Parish (Poster 50)
MSc Student, University of Toronto | Canada
Cross-omics analysis of the maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy reveals functional changes linked to nutritional status
Grace Parish, Billy Taj, John Parkinson
Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Poster 51)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Early-Life Gut Microbial Succession and Its Environmental Drivers in Rural Infants
M. Parizadeh, I. Laforest-Lapointe, A. Serrano-Vázquez, P. Morán-Silva, L. Rojas-Velázquez, J. Torres, C. Ximénez-García, M.C. Arrieta
Michelle Park (Poster 52)
Undergraduate Student, University of Alberta | Canada
Early-Life Antibiotic Exposure Promotes The Translocation Of Escherichia Coli, Which Drives The Overexpression Of Cramp In The Pancreas And May Influence The Development Of Type 2 Diabetes In Gnotobiotic Mice
Michelle Park, Rajibur Rahman, Joshua Theriault, Stephanie Tollenaar, Ben Willing
Kaetlyn Phillips (Poster 53)
MSc Student, University of Calgary | Canada
The preterm infant gut microbiome and probiotics influence growth rates and synaptic development in gnotobiotic mice
Kaetlyn Phillips, Simrit Rai, Emily Mercer, Thais Glatthardt, Michelle Asbury, Mona Parizadeh, Zahra Rangipour, William Nguyen, Van Ortega, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Amanda Piano (Poster 54)
Clinical Laboratory Manager, Rosell® Institute for Microbiome and Probiotics | Canada
Overcoming the Challenges of Probiotic Strain Recovery in Low Bacterial Biomass Clinical Samples with PCR Inhibitors using Nanoplate Digital PCR Technology
Amanda Piano, Priscila Costa Freitas, Courtney Lundell-Streeter, Marie-Laure Oula, Saly El Salti, Jean-Charles Pasquier, and Sylvie Binda
Dr. Leila Rezaei (Poster 55)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Developmental Differences in Microbial Metabolism: A Comparative Metabolic Modeling Study of Infant- and Adult-Associated Bifidobacteria
Leila Rezaei, Arlina Dey, Delaney Barth, Marcel van de Wouw, Gerald Giesbrecht
Dorian Rojas Villalta (Poster 56)
PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Total Bacterial Loads Increase Over Time in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Probotic-Exposed Preterm Infants
Dorian Rojas-Villalta, Michelle R. Asbury, Emily Mercer, Belal Alshaikh, Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Marie-Claire Arrieta
Marine Rullier (Poster 57)
PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal | Canada
Fecal microbiota transplant as an adjunctive treatment of canine chronic pruritic dermatitis
Marine Rullier, Frédéric Sauvé, Marie-Claude Blais, Jan S. Suchodolski, Marcio Costa
Mahana Sabachvili (Poster 58)
PhD Student, University of Tübingen | Germany
Pathobiont-host interactions and precision medicine in inflammatory bowel disease
Mahana Sabachvili, Carolyn Thomson, Spencer Abbott, Marcela Davoli, Christina Ohland, Kathy McCoy, Lukas Mager
Rehnuma Tabassum Sejuty (Poster 59)
PhD Candidate, University of Calgary | Canada
Determinants of body heat-sensing by a bacterial virulence regulator
Rehnuma T. Sejuty, James Siclari, Dunia A. Cob, Mariellle Uy, Trevor E. Randall, Vanessa E. Adams, Abbie Paulson,Nobuhiko Watanabe, Alexei Savchenko, Bryan G. Yipp, Justin L. MacCallum, P. Lynne Howell, Kevin H. Gardner, Joe J. Harrison
Dr. Shrushti Shah (Poster 60)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia | Canada
Spatial Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A pilot study
Shrushti Shah, Cristian Massaro, Gabriele Moreira Guimaraes, Greg Rosenfeld, Yvette Leung, Astrid Williams, Brian Bressler, Genelle Lunken
Amy Shupe (Poster 61)
MSc Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Bacterial derived exopolysaccharides enhance the response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy
Amy Shupe, Romulo Siva de Oliveira, Lukas Mager, Kathy D. McCoy
Tara Signorelli (Poster 62)
Biologist, Public Health Agency of Canada | Canada
Nanopore Quasi-metagenomics Survey of Bacterial Populations in Canadian Surveillance Waters
Tara Signorelli, Farhaan Kanji, Amanda Mazzocco, Kyla Cochrane, James Robertson, Hailey M Silver, Andrea Nesbitt, Richard J Reid-Smith, Aleisha Reimer, Shannon HC Eagle
Dr. Andrea Silverj (Poster 63)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Discovery of Putative Active and Cryptic Viral Infections in Prevalent Gut Fungi
Andrea Silverj, Amanda Araújo Serrão de Andrade, Kyla Ost, and Ann C. Gregory
Usha Sivakumar Sharma (Poster 64)
PhD Student, University of Alberta | Canada
Host-specific colonization of Bacteroidetes in broiler chickens and its impact on Salmonella challenge
Usha Sivakumar Sharma, Camila Schultz Marcolla, Benjamin P. Willing
Isla Skalosky (Poster 65)
PhD Candidate, University of Calgary | Canada
Impact of Intestinal Microbiota Antigen Mimicry of a Viral Epitope on Anti-Viral T Cell Responses
Isla Skalosky, Shokouh Ahmadi, Marcela Davoli Ferreira, Carolyn Thomson, Regula Burkhard, Kathy D. McCoy, and Markus B. Geuking
Dr. Atena Sadat Sombolestani (Poster 66)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
From Burn to Breath: Microbiome Dynamics of Wildfire in Asthmatic Patients
Atena Sombolestani, Christina Thornton, Colin MacKenzie, Shakiba Talebian, Wayne Cheng, Ran Zhang, Paul Kubes
Apsara Srinivas (Poster 67)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia | Canada
Investigating the role of Muribaculaceae in microbiome composition and mediating Salmonella colonization resistance
Apsara Srinivas, Deanna Pepin, Claire Sie, Carolina Tropini
Kathryn Strayer (Poster 68)
PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Cross-kingdom interactions between airway Candida spp., bacterial pathogens, and the host immune system promote ventilator-associated pneumonia
Strayer KA, Thornton C, McDonald B
Niklas Tappauf (Poster 69)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia | Canada
The microbiome as a potential mediator of a milk-based dietary intervention on behavioral outcomes in early life: a study in Canadian toddlers
Niklas Tappauf, Genelle Lunken, Irvin Ng, Adrianna Greco, Ho Pan Sham, Jeffrey N. Bone, Annie V. Ciernia, Tim F. Oberlander, Bruce A. Vallance, Yvonne Lamers
Albina Tskhay (Poster 70)
PhD Student, McGill University | Canada
Evaluating Causal Methodology and Language in Microbiome Studies: A Systematic Methodological Review
Albina Tskhay, Alibek Moldakozhayev, Cristina Longo, Celia M.T. Greenwood, Stan Kubow, Roxana Behruzi, Tibor Schuster
Mitchell Van Den Bosch (Poster 71)
MSc Student, University of Alberta | Canada
Prenatal depression linked to childhood asthma through an infant gut microbiota pathway
Mitchell Van Den Bosch, Anne Hicks, Khanh Vu, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Theo J. Moraes, Elinor Simons, Padmaja Subbarao, Stuart E. Turvey, James A. Scott, and Anita L. Kozyrskyj
Dr. Juan Velez-Ixta (Poster 72)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary | Canada
Effect of Wildfire Smoke on Infant Gut Microbiome
Juan Manuel Vélez-Ixta, Vidhi Desai, Leila Rezaei, Marcel Van de Wouw, Naman Paul, Gerald Giesbrecht
Dr. Brendan Whitman (Poster 73)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta | Canada
Fecal microbiota transplantation without the microbiota in preventing recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: functional restoration of gut microbiome supported by multi-omics assessment
Brendan Whitman, Ramin Karimianghadim, Shuang Zhao, Chelsea McDougall, Rose Franz, Karen Wong, Sepideh Pakpour, Dina Kao
Ayesha Wijesinghe (Poster 74)
PhD Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Gut microbiome regulates neutrophil immunometabolism
Ayesha Wijesinghe, Nicole A Cho, Jared Schlechte, Ian-ling Yu, and Braedon McDonald
Geoff Winsor (Poster 75)
Graduate Student, Simon Fraser University | Canada
Exploring the complex etiology of childhood asthma through integrative exposomics and microbiome analyses
Geoffrey L. Winsor, Justin Cook, Charisse Petersen, Karlie Edwards, Erin E. Gill, Luisa Mercada Mendoza, Stan He, Lauren Erdman, Michael Kobor, Kozeta Miliku, Catherine J. Field, Jeffrey R. Brook, Theo J, Moraes, Meghan B. Azad, Stuart E. Turvey, Padmaja Subbarao, and Fiona S.L. Brinkman
Dr. Hyungjun Yang (Poster 76)
Research Associate, University of British Columbia | Canada
Genetic and diet-associated mucus impairments increase susceptibility to ulcerative colitis pathobiont-driven colitis
Hyungjun Yang, Yaqi Zhang, Woojung Kim, Caixia Ma, Hongbing Yu, Bruce A. Vallance
Dr. Kelsey Huus (Poster 77)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen | Germany
The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination
Kelsey E. Huus, µHEAT Clinical Study Group, Hirohito Abo, Yi Han Tan, Ezgi Atay, Ronald Keller, Silke Dauser, Dai Long Vu, Dennis Jakob, Alina Prokipchuk, Rong Liu, Alexander V. Tyakht, Nicholas Youngblut, Benoit Chassaing, Sang-Moo Kang, Julie Parsonnet, Peter G. Kremsner, Lisa Maier, Andrew T. Gewirtz, Meral Esen, Ruth E. Ley
Aqsa Mohammed (Poster 78)
Graduate Student, City of Hope | USA
Synbiotic Strategies to Prevent Neutropenic Fever in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Aqsa Mohammed, Jennifer L. Karmouch, Mohamed A. Jamal, Valerie Chapa, Ivonne Flores, Lauren McDaniel, Chia-Chi Chang, Robert R. Jenq
Erica Yeo (Poster 79)
PhD Candidate, McMaster University | Canada
The gut microbiota participates in maternal metabolic adaptations to pregnancy
Asha Octoman (Poster 80)
MSc Student, University of Calgary | Canada
Similar gut metagenomic patterns between two large Parkinson’s disease cohorts
Avril Metcalfe-Roach, PhD, Asha Octoman, BSc, Silke Appel-Cresswell, MD, Brett Finlay, PhD
Xi Ying (Sally) Zhou (Poster 81)
Student, Burman University | Canada
Investigating the effects of haskap and flaxseed supplementation on human cardiovascular disease, the microbiome and metabolome
Xi Ying Zhou, Diya Chandrasekhar, Ethan Burgess, Richard Gonzalez, Naomi Akanmori, Eva Unger, Jenna Poelzer, Dorsa Yahya Rayat, Nahi Kim, Joyce Sekleh, Matthew Unger, Peter Wass, David Wishart, Catherine J. Field, Philip Sherman, Devin Holman, and Pekka Määttänen