This webinar, "Understanding Probiotics for better quality of life" will answer a series of questions:

- What exactly are probiotics and how do probiotic micro-organisms work?

- What is the gut microbiota and how does it interact with probiotics?

- How do probiotics travel in your body, interact and directly or indirectly deliver beneficial effects?

Our experts will set out the current state-of-play and answer your questions live.

The speakers

Introduction

Prof. Lucio Capurso

Professor of Gastroenterology, since 1998 chair of the “Probiotics, Prebiotics and New Food” International Congress in Rome, Italy. Since 1964 he has been teaching at the University "La Sapienza" in Rome as Chair of “Science of Nutrition”. Prof Capurso has been Senior Registrar of Gastroenterology, and until 1985 Chief of the Gastrointestinal Unit at the “S. Filippo Neri” General Hospital in Rome.

Speaker

Joël Doré

Research Director at INRAE, Joël is Scientific Director of MetaGenoPolis, a Unit of the Micalis Institute “Food and Gut Microbiology for Human Health”, associated with University Paris Saclay.

Joël joined INRA in 1983 and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1988. He aims to contribute to a better understanding of the intestinal ecosystem in order to support therapeutic choices in the medical area, as well as science-based recommendations in health nutrition.

Moderator

Sylvie Binda

Sylvie Binda Chair of the IPAEurope Scientific Group, member of the IPA Scientific Committee, Board member in the Pharmabiotics Research Institute.

R &D Process & Technological Director at Lallemand Health Solutions since 2020, previously Probiotics Science leader in Danone Research for 12 years, Sylvie was also Fermentation principal scientist in Ajinomoto during 7 years.

Moderator

Bruno Pot

Member of the IPA Europe Scientific Group, member of the IPA Scientific Committee.

Since 2001 Bruno is Guest Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2016, he join Yakult as Science Director Europe. He is a member of the Taxonomic Subcommittee for Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, President of the Pharmabiotic Research Institute, and board member of ILSI-EU and the LABIP.

The organisers

Understanding Probiotics for a better quality of life is brought to you by the International Probiotics Association - Europe (IPA Europe) and the International Meeting "Probiotics, Prebiotics and New Foods". The abstracts and the presentations of the IPA Europe for the  2019 edition are available at this link.