GMFH is pleased to announce the program for the 7th edition of the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit, to be held in Rome on March 10th and 11th, 2018! Check out the top-notch list of speakers, chosen by the Gut Summit's scientific committee under the leadership of Dr. Francisco Guarner, Head of the Gastrointestinal Research Unit at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona (Spain).

In our penultimate newsletter of 2017, we also highlight an article on gut microbiota in older age: that is, a cross-sectional study from China showing the gut microbiota of very healthy people--up to 100 years old--is similar to that of healthy 30-year-olds.

Next we bring you two reviews of hot topics within the field of gut microbiota: (1) how resistant starch affects the gut microbiota, and the mechanisms by which it could affect host nutrition and health, and (2) how the mycobiome is relevant to chronic intestinal inflammation and how knowledge about bacterial-fungal interactions might yield new treatment approaches for inflammatory bowel disease. The final piece gets more specific with a study on how a high-fat diet in mice can alter the way bacteria and fungi interact within the intestines, contributing to obesity.