Date and time
Tuesday, 25 June at 3pm to 5pm
Place
House of the Estates, Säätytalo (Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki)
Pre-registration
The seminar will address the new world of the microbiota and how it is affecting our vision on host-microbe interactions in health and disease.It will also address the ism of causality in the relationship between altered microbiota and a series of epidemic, “post-modern”, not communicable diseases. Hence the needto revisit Koch’s postulates. Download the flyer.
The seminar is organised in the framework of the cooperation between the Institut Français de Finlande, the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
PROGRAMME
15h-15h15: Welcoming words
Director Gaelle Hourriez-Bolatre, Embassy of France – Institut Francais de Finlande
Dr. Sinikka Salo, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Prof. Jukka Meurman, Chair, Finnish Society for Science and Letters
15h15-16h: Keynote
The gut microbiome, from health to disease : revisiting the Koch’s postulates
Prof. Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur / Collège de France)
16h-16h15: Q/A session
16h15-17h30: Panel discussion on the importance of Health Research
Prof. Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur / Collège de France
Prof. Mikael Knip, Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters
Prof. Mika Rämet, former chair of Health Council
Prof. Mika Salminen, THL representative (tbc)
Dr. Sinikka Salo, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Moderation: Prof. Jukka Meurman, Chair, Finnish Society for Science and Letters
Philippe Sansonetti is Professor and head of the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire at the Pasteur Institute of Paris and chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Collège de France. Professor Sansonetti qualified in medicine from the University of Paris in 1979. Following clinical work in France, he established his research career at Institut Pasteur in cellular microbiology and the pathogenesis of enteric infections, particularly Shigella, including vaccine development, and more recently the molecular crosstalks between microbiota and gut epithelium. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Louis Jeantet Prize and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship. He was awarded two successive ERC (European Research Council) grants. He is currently Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine. Philippe Sansonetti is a member of the French Academy of Science, US National Academy of Science and the Royal Society.