Chair: Associate Professor Ryan Anderton
Associate Professor Ryan Anderton is the Deputy Head of School, Head of Discipline, Biomedical Science, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery and Health Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
Symposia: The role of the microbiome and gut-brain axis in brain function and dysfunction
Dr Sarah-Jane Leigh, Research Associate, UNSW, Australia
Drug-microbiota interactions underlie behavioural side effects of pharmacotherapies
Associate Professor Francine Marques, Monash University, Australia
Dietary fibre reverses adverse post-stroke outcomes in mice via short-chain fatty acids and its sensing receptors
Associate Professor Francine Marques, Head of the Hypertension Research Laboratory;NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow;Senior Medical Research Fellow, Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation;National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, Monash University, Australia
Professor Damien Keating, Flinders University, Monash University, Australia
Discovery of the cell and receptor target of the mood stabiliser lithium and relevance of this gut-brain pathway for bipolar disorder pathogenesis
Professor Damien Keating, Deputy Director, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Monash University, Australia
Professor Anthony Hannan, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Gene-environment interactions modulating the microbiota-gut-brain axis within and between generations
Professor Anthony Hannan, Research Co-Lead, Mental Health Mission, Florey Institute of Neuroscience Research Co-Lead, Mental Health Mission, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne