00.00, Tuesday 02 December 2014
11 St Andrews Place Royal College of Physicians
Regent’s Park
The 2014 Jean Shanks Lecture, Dining out with friends: The intestinal microbiome in health and disease, will be presented by Professor Fiona Powrie FRS FMedSci, University of Oxford.
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to trillions of commensal bacteria that play an important role in nutrition, immune system development and host defence. In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic debilitating disease of the gastrointestinal tract, there is a breakdown in the healthy dialogue between our body and our microbial residents resulting in chronic immune attack in the bowel.
In this presentation, Professor Powrie will review key host adaptations that maintain intestinal homeostasis and discuss how understanding these pathways may provide new therapies for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases.
This event is open to all. To attend, please RSVP to Alison Loader de Rojo, alison.rojo@acmedsci.ac.uk.