Lezing 'A recipe for health: a bit of diet, a dash of microbes, and plenty of social equity'
- Voor wie
- Medewerkers , Studenten
- Wanneer
- 21-05-2026 van 16:00 tot 17:30
- Waar
- MS Teams and Auditorium A - Campus Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent
- Voertaal
- Engels
- Door wie
- Departments of Public Health and Primary Care & Internal Medicine and Pediatrics - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Contact
- kim.dekeyser@ugent.be
- Website
- https://www.ugent.be/ge/en/research/interdisciplinary-medicine-health-seminars.htm
This talk will present scientific work on microbiomes and social equity, as well as the use of diet and gut microbiomes to reduce inflammation.
The Interdisciplinary Medical and Health Seminar of May 2026 is co-organized by the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and the Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Dr. Sue Ishaq is Associate Professor in Microbiome Studies at the University of Maine and currently serves as the At-Large Early Career Representative on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Ishaq founded the Microbes and Social Equity working group in 2020.
Over the years, her research has gone from wild animal gut microbiomes, to soils, to buildings, and back to the gut. Since 2019, her lab in Maine focuses on how interactions between diet, host anatomy and the immune system, and gut microbes can be harnessed to reduce inflammation.
This talk will present her collaborative work on microbiomes and social equity, as well as the use of diet and gut microbiomes to reduce inflammation.