08:00 a.m. – Keynote lecture:
Presented by: Flavia Indrio, Ruggiero Francavilla
Phytonutriens and intestinal microbiome: clinical perspectives
Nitida Pastor
Session III
KIDNEY AND MICROBIOME
Chair: Ilenia Chillura, Mehetan Ozen
08:30 a.m. – Gut-Kidney Axis and Microbiome
Pieter Evenepoel
08:55 a.m. – Gut-Brain-Kidney interplay and Brain Fog in patients with
AKI and CKD
Loreto Gesualdo
09:20 a.m. – Discussion
Session IV
MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION IN
MICROBIOME RESEARCH
09:30 a.m. – THE MIS USE OF AI: HOW TO REVEAL THE FAKE NEWS
Massimo Barberi, Christian Boggio Marzet, Eslam El-Baroudy,
Flavia Indrio, Elio Masciari
10:30 a.m. – Coffee Break and Poster Walking
Session V
DECIPHERING THE NUTRITION AND MICROBIOME INTERPLAY
Chair: Jose Vicente Noronha Spolidoro, Mario Vieira
11:00 a.m. – The Missing Bacteria
Petra Zimmermann
11:25 a.m. – Driving the Best Trajectory for Gut Microbiome Development
and Function in Early Life
Anne Salonen
11:50 a.m. – Beneficial Drivers
Alessio Fasano
12:15 a.m. – Detrimental Drivers
Roberto Berni Canani
12:40 a.m. – Discussion
01:00 p.m. – Nestlè Nutrition Institute Lunch Symposium
Milestones That Matter: How Early Microbiome Development Shapes
Immune and Metabolic Health
Marie‑Claire Arrieta, Stéphane Duboux
18TH APRIL 2026
PROGRAMME
08:00 a.m. – Opella Breakfast symposium
Are All Probiotics the Same? The Importance of Compositional Quality of
Probiotics
Roberto Berni Canani, Hania Szajewska, Emilia Ghelardi
Session VII
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Chair: Ener Çağrı Dinleyici, Roberto Berni Canani
09:00 a.m. – Treatment of Pediatric Acute Gastroenteritis
Hania Szajewska
09:20 a.m. – Prevention of Pediatric URTIs with Pro/Prebiotics
Metehan Özen
09:40 a.m. – Prevention of Pediatric Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea
Francisco Guarner
10:00 a.m. – Discussion
10:20 a.m. – KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prevention of Common Pediatric Infections with
Probiotics/Prebiotics/Symbiotic Infant Formula
Ener Çağrı Dinleyici
10:40 a.m. – Coffee Break and Poster Walking
02:30 p.m. – Oral presentations
Presented by: Vanessa Dargenio, Ruggiero Francavilla
Session VI
GUT-BRAIN AXIS
Chair: Pedro Gutierrez-Castrellon, Sylvia Cruchet
03:30 p.m. – The Use of AI to Explore the Role of the Gut Microbiome in
Autism
Sabina Tangaro
03:45 p.m. – Early-Life Gut Microbiota and Neurodevelopment:
Foundations for Lifelong Health
Rochellys Diaz Heijtz
04:00 p.m. – Gut-immune-brain interactions during neurodevelopment:
from a brain-centric to a multisystem perspective
Pasquale Striano
04:15 p.m. – Discussion
05:00 p.m. – Nutricia Symposium
Restoring balance early: biotic based approaches for gut microbiota
alterations
Remco Kort, Flavia Indrio, Jan Knol
Pizzica and Panzerotti