07:30-09:00- Registration- Lobby Floor

08:00-09:00- Light Breakfast and visit at the exhibit hall- Elstein Gallery 1- Floor 1

09:00-09:05- Welcome

                      Prof. Eli Zuckerman, Chairman of the Israel Association for the Study of the Liver

             

Session 1: Gut-liver axis: Overview

Chairs: Prof. Eli Zuckerman, Dr. Rawi Hazan

09:05-09:30- Gut-liver axis: functional links – overview

                      Dr. Eran Elinav, ElinavLab, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science  

09:30-09:55- The state of the art methods in gut microbiome research

                      Prof. Omry Koren, Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

09:55-10:20-The tumor microbiome and its effects of chemoresistance 

                     Dr. Ravid Straussman, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, 

                      Weizmann Institute of Science

10:20-10:45- Gut microbiome and drug metabolism

                      Dr. Eran Elinav, ElinavLab, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science

10:45-11:00- Coffee Break and visit at the exhibit hall

 

Session 2: Gut microbiome, metabolic syndrome and non- alcoholic fatty liver disease

Chairs: Prof. Ran Oren, Dr. Yoram Menachem

11:00-11:25 -Gut microbiome, metabolic syndrome and obesity  

                     Prof. Zamir  Halpern, Director of Research Center of Gastroenterology,

                     Tel Aviv Souraski Medical Center 

11:25-11:55- Gut microbiome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease    

                      Prof. Oren Shibolet, Director of Digestive Disease Center 

                      Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

11:55-12:20- Novel methods for the treatment of NASH-Targeting the gut immune System    

                     Prof. Yaron Ilan, Head of Internal Medicine Department A, Hadassah Ein Kerem.

12:20-12:45-  Gut microbiome and alcoholic liver disease

                      Prof. Jasmohan Bajaj, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology,

                      Hepatology, and Nutrition, Virginia Commonwealth University and McGuire

                      VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia

12:45-13:05- Coffee Break and visit at the exhibit hall

Session 3: Gut microbiome and liver diseases

Chairs: Dr. Marius Braun, Dr. Michal Carmiel

13:05-13:30-The gut microbiome, cirrhosis and complications: hepatic encephalopathy

                      and decompensation     

                      Prof. Jasmohan Bajaj, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology,

                      Hepatology, and Nutrition, Virginia Commonwealth University and McGuire

                      VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia

13:30-13:55- Gut microbiome and cholestatic liver diseases

                      Prof. Ziv Ben Ari, Director of Liver Diseases Center, Sheba Medical Center

13:55-14:20- Targeting the gut microbiome in the treatment of liver diseases (clinical )

                      Prof. Yehuda Ringel, Division of Gastroenterology, Rabin Medical Center

14:20-Lunch- Oratiorio Restaurant - Floor 1