ISAPP Newsletter – May 2021
Only two days remain to register for the ISAPP annual meeting! Don’t miss out on your chance to connect with the ISAPP community and learn about hot topics in probiotic & prebiotic science, including the microbiota-gut-brain axis. All are welcome to register for the open portion of the program here. A notable mention also goes out to the following SFA members awarded a presentation slot for the upcoming 2021 virtual ISAPP meeting: Dr. Irina Spacova and Dr. Ilke De Boeck (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Ana Rita da Silva Ferreira (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Victoria Onwuliri (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria), and Dr. Shirin Moossavi (University of Calgary, Canada).
Below, you can read about another upcoming ISAPP event – on July 1st, a mini-symposium on gut fungi and their role in human health.
The big news this month was the publication of the ISAPP-led international scientific consensus definition on postbiotics! Below you will find an ISAPP blog post covering the main points of this paper, and a roundup of the ISAPP-led ‘biotics’ definitions to date.
The next blog post features work by ISAPP President Prof. Seppo Salminen & colleagues, on how a canine probiotic affects the dog as well as the children in a household.
New on the ISAPP Students and Fellows Association (SFA) blog this month, Shaeley Gibbons (MSc student, Western University, Canada) shares her experiences entering graduate school in 2020 and discusses the unique challenges COVID-19 has presented for clinical research-based thesis programs. This represents part one of an ongoing blog series focused on graduate school experiences of SFA members during the pandemic so far – stay tuned for more to come!
Finally, check out a new post by Dr. Marla Cunningham, covering whether new product formats require new clinical trials.
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