Programme

18.00 – 19.00

Registration and dinner

19.00 – 19.15

Chairpersons welcome – Sian Evans – Dietitian Cardiff and Vale

Emma Thomas – The importance of the first 1000 days

19.15 – 20.30

Glenn Gibson – ”The Developing Gut in Early Life, Prebiotics and the First 1000 days”

Glenn Gibson is Professor of Food Microbiology at the University of Reading.
His main research interest is human gut bacteriology, upon which he was co-instigator of the prebiotic concept for improved gut health. He sits on 5 advisory panels and is former President of International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics. He currently researches acute and chronic gut disease, autism, obesity and novel prebiotics. He is also carrying out specific projects on pro/prebiotics, the molecular genotyping of gut bacteria, H2S production, as well as gastroenteritis in sportspersons, metabolic syndrome, IBS, IBD, and gut flora development with age and colonic homeostasis.

20.30 – 21.00

Questions and close

Key Learning Objectives:

– The gut microbiome in health and disease
– What are probiotics?
– What are prebiotics?
– What are the health aspects for infants and adults?- Future perspectives