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Healthy Bacteria for Healthier Life
PBS-2015
Probiotics SummitJuly 06-08, 2015
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Francisco AirportSan Francisco, USA
Introduction PBS-2015
1. Discover new and cutting-edge researchGain insights about the latest science and enhance your knowledge beyond your scientific field of interest. With a robust scientific program, a new path that links and organizes select sessions from the scientific program into cross-disciplinary themes.
2. Unparalleled visibility for your scienceThe conference draws both luminaries in their fields and up-and-coming talent. The meeting will attract active participants including students, academicians, policy makers and other high level decision makers. With this varied kind of participation come plenty of opportunities to seek out funding for new research and get quality feedback before publishing your research in a peer-reviewed journal.
3. Network with your peersThe meeting offers unlimited ample opportunities to network with your colleagues from various backgrounds and regions. Boost up your network with your peers at the opening ice breaker reception and connect with people who specialize in your field during daily networking breaks.
4. Give leads to your careerPBS-2015 can help you to achieve your career goal and increase your worth to potential employers.
Conference Highlights
United Scientific Group’s PBS-2015 delighted to welcome you to San Francisco, USA. This meeting involves current research, development and discovery of probiotics, prebiotics, food technology and nutritional science. The conference is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas across a broad range of disciplines.
We are putting our efforts in making a healthier world, and generously finding out the possible steps in keeping away the infectious diseases from the current situations. Hence joining our hands with the strongest scientific community, industrialists and young researchers in making an innovative world which is free from infections.
What we are doing?
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Our Scientific Advisory Committee PBS-2015
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S K DashDD Innovations Inc., USA
Franco VicariottoSan PIO X Hospital, Italy
Giuseppe MelePaidoss, Italy
Dilek HeperkanIstanbul Technical University, Turkey
Antonello SantiniDepartment of Pharmacy University of Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Iryna SorokulovaAuburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, USA
Angelo RaganatoPaidoss, Italy
Svetla T DanovaBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
⇒ Inventions in probiotics and prebiotics ⇒ Probiotics in veterinary science ⇒ Dairy technology ⇒ Role of probiotics in infectious diseases ⇒ Novel probioceuticals ⇒ Microbiology & Immunology ⇒ Probiotics in pediatrics ⇒ Probiotics in functional foods ⇒ Advancements in probiotics, prebiotics and nutraceutics ⇒ Aquaculture ⇒ Study of intestinal interactions ⇒ Nutritional science & neutraceuticals ⇒ Probiotics guidelines in weight loss ⇒ Gastrointestinal system Industrial probiotics ⇒ Inflammatory bowel disease & crohn’s disease ⇒ Probiotics in women’s health ⇒ Probiotics in oral health and dentistry ⇒ Animal physiology and animal nutrition ⇒ Benefits of probiotics supplements
Discussions on PBS-2015
PBS-2015 Program at a glance
Quick View of Monday July 6Afternoon Arrivals of guests14:30-15:30 Registration desk available for onsite registrants
15:00-15:30 Refreshments/Coffee
Evening 16:00-16:15 Introduction to the Probiotics Summit and Inauguration
16:15-18:45 Keynote Session
19:00-20:30 Roundtable Discussions & Dinner
Quick View of Tuesday July 7Morning 09:30-10:30 Poster presentation Session
10:30-10:45 Morning break
10:45-13:00 Conference Session begins
Afternoon13:00-13:45 Lunch with round table discussions
16:00-16:15 Evening break (Networking)
Evening16:15-18:30 Conference Session continues and ends for the day
Quick View of Wednesday July 8Morning 09:30-10:30 Conference Sessions begins
10:30-10:45 Morning break
Afternoon13:00-13:45 Lunch with round table discussions
13:45-14:15 Closing Ceremony
14:30 Departures
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Keynote SessionDay 1Monday July 6, 2015
30 minutes Presentation on: Development of a Live Biotherapeutic Product as a Vaginally Disintegrating Tablet to Prevent HIV Infection
30 minutes Presentation on: Yet to be Announced
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S K Dash, DD Innovations, USA
S K Dash is an adjunct professor of Health and Nutritional Sciences at South Dakota State University and Director of Research and President of UAS Laboratories, Inc. He has published more than 30 research papers in scientific journals and spoken at national and international conferences. Dr. Dash is serving the National Probiotic Committee and International Probiotic Association. Dr. Dash is the former Food and Drug Director of South Dakota State. He has been honoured as the distinguished man of the year and received the 2010 Frost & Sullivan
Award for his probiotic research and innovations.
Laurel Lagenaur, National Institute of Health (NIH), USA
Lagenaur is Osel’s first employee and has led development of Osel’s Lactobacillus technology platform as the Director of Research. She has been the principal investigator on numerous research grants, including Osel’s first SBIR grant to develop MucoCept-HIV as a novel live microbicide to prevent HIV transmission in women.Dr. Lagenaur is a molecular biologist with extensive experience in virology and bacteriology and was a clinical microbiologist in both the human and veterinary fields. She received her doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Keynote SessionDay 1Monday July 6, 2015
30 minutes Presentation on: Role of microbiota-gut-brain axis in mental health with the emphasize of auto-antibodies: Effect of probiotics and nutritional interactions
30 minutes Presentation on: Yet to be Announced
30 minutes Presentation on: Rethinking probiotics and nutraceuticals: the health paradigm
Afaf El-Ansary, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Afaf El-Ansary graduated from biochemistry department, Ain Shams University, Egypt in 1974. Since 2001, She is working as a Professor, Biochemistry Department, Science College, King Saud University, KSA. She is member in number of national and international societies and she is recorded as reviewer in many international journals. In recent year she focused on the screening of biochemical markers related to autism, induction of autistic features in rodent model and the role of microbiota- gut-brain axis as an etiological mechanism related to this disorder. She got 95 published papers in high impact factor Journals related to this research interest.
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Giuseppe Mele, Paidoss, Italy
Giuseppe Mele, Pediatrician. Giuseppe Mele is the Past National President of FIMP, the Italian Federation of Pediatricians and Scientific Coordinator. He gained his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1977; he specialized in pediatrics with full marks. He has always been passionate about civil and human rights and this brought him to fight for the rights in his category through the channel of medical unionism. He has been involved in the health system both on a professional level and from a political and unionist point of view. During his twenty-year medical and trade union experience, he can count numerous attendances to events such as: Ministerial Commissions, Scientific Boards, prestigious publications and national and international congress events. In 2013 he has been nominated expert for the Advisory Committee for the Pediatric area of the Italian Medicines Agency.
Antonello Santini, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Prof. Antonello Santini, PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli, Italy, 1992; Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, 1993-1994; National Research Council Fellow, University of Napoli, 1994-1995; Appointed to Faculty, University of Napoli “Federico II”, 1994-today: Department of Food Science and since 2012 Department of Pharmacy. Responsible, Virtual Laboratory of research and Education in Food (www.lva.unina.it), 1999; He has published more than 110 papers in reputed international Journals. Editor in Chief, Food Science and Technology Letters, 2011; Editor in Chief of Journal of Food Research, 2012; Member of the European Food Safety Authority EFSA, ERWG, Parma, Italy; Member of Managing Board, Italian Chemistry Society (SCI) Division of Teaching (DD-SCI), Rome, Italy. His teaching includes Food Chemistry, General and Inorganic Chemistry, Laboratory of Chemistry. His research activity focuses on Food Chemistry; Nutraceuticals; Food contaminants; Mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; Food analysis
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Conference SessionsDay 2Tuesday July 7, 2015
Presentation on: Prebiotic affect of thymol-D-glucopyranoside on Escherichia coli in porcine jejunal, cecal and rectal gut compartments
Gurhan Ciftcioglu, Istanbul University, Turkey
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Role of antioxidants and polyphenols in thrombosis and haemostatic functionAbishek B Santhakumar, Central Queensland University, Australia
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Gut inflammation and altered microbiome impact progression of chronic kidney diseaseWei Ling Lau, University of California, USA
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Isolation of very tolerant probiotics for food products with harsh conditionsAmir M Mortazavian, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Yet to be AnnouncedSvetla T Danova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Effect of processing on thylakoid membrane - a novel appetite suppressing agent Karolina Ostbring, Lund University, Sweden
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Chemical sensing in the colonAtsukazu Kuwahara, University of Shizuoka, Japan
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: New potential probiotic strain of Leuconostoc citreum with immunomodulatory effectsCelia C.G. Silva, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Technological characteristics of probiotics in traditional fermented beveragesDilek Heperkan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Can probiotic yogurt prevent diarrhoea in children on antibiotics? A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled studyKiran DK Ahuja, University of Tasmania, Australia
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Exploring and Mapping Autoimmune DiseaseBonnie Feldman, Stanford University, USA
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer: Indian enigmaRenu Pandey, SDSMT Rapid City South Dakota, USA
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: The potential possibility of Indonesian ‘Tempeh’ for its usage in marine aquaculture products
Rahmad Supriyanto Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Properties of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp mesenteroids SJRP55: a multitasking strainAna Lúcia Barretto Penna, São Paulo State University, Brazil
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Bacterial Transplantation, a Novel Approach to Evaluate the Efficacy of Probiotic Candidates against Enteric Pathogens in AnimalsKomala Arsi, University of Arkansas, USA
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Longer period of oral administration of aspartame oncytokine response in Wistar albino ratsArbind Kumar Choudhary, University of Madras, India
up to 25 minutes
Conference SessionsDay 2Tuesday July 7, 2015
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Presentation on: Lactobacillus plantarum ST8Sh as probiotic or bio-protective culture-safety aspects for applicationSvetoslav Dimirov Todorov, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Probiotic strains for value addition in tropical fruitsPuja Ravikumar, Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation, India
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Therapeutic potential probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum MYS14 isolated from SannasPoornachandra Rao K, University of Mysore, India
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Probiotic bifidobacteria stimulate SLC26A3 Gene function and expression in intestinal epithelial cellsPradeep K Dudeja, University of Illinois, USA
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Comparative evaluation of biogas production from Poultry droppings, Cow dung and Lemon grassMeshach Ileanwa Alfa, University of Jos, Nigeria
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Congo Red Absorption by Escherichia coli: A Simplest Method for the Selection and Confirmation of TransconjugantsMohsin Tariq, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Yet to be givenErandi Escamilla Garcia, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
up to 25 minutes
Presentation on: Yet to be AnnouncedDan Donoghue, University of Arkansas, USA
up to 25 minutes
Poster SessionsDay 3Monday July 8, 2015
Presentation on: Encapsulation methods of probiotic lactic acid bacteriaEce Gokmen, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Presentation on: Viability of new potential probiotic strains with anti-inflammatory & anti-obesity effects during low-fat yogurt and Cheddar cheese makingVeronique Demers Mathieu, Laval University, Canada
Speaker presentation slots available
Presentation on: Anti-adipogenic effect of Kimchi fermented in Kimchi refrigerator under different storage conditionsKi-Bum Park, Woosuk University, South Korea
Presentation on: A new method for exploring the antimicrobial activity of metallic nanoparticlesKate Sheehy, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Poster SessionsDay 3Monday July 8, 2015
Presentation on: Neutrophil extracellular traps contribute to the intestine damage in endotoxemic ratsWeiwei Ding, Nanjing University, China
Presentation on: Effect of some antioxidant vitamins on the antifungal activity and cytotoxicity of amphotericin BBELHACHEMI Mohammed Habib, Tlemcen University, Algeria
Presentation on: Probiotics in dental caries managementSedighe Sadat HashemiKamangar, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Presentation on: Symptom-Free Antibiotic Administration Reduced Mouse Gut Inner Mucus Layer and Bacterial DiversityYa-Ting Hsu, Tzu-Chi University, Taiwan
Presentation on: The effect of probiotic stains (Bifidobacterium bifidum ) on intestinal microbiota and contamination with enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)
F. MAHMOUDI, university Es-senia, Algeria
Presentation on: Effect of Red Meat Addition on the Microbiological, Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Dairy YoghurtNoemi Gutierrez-Maddox, AUT University, New Zealand
Presentation on: Characterization and screening of the microflora of lemon coagulant soy-cheese for preliminary starter culture(s)Jemima Omonigho Adepehin, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
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