To coincide with the launch of a large microbiome initiative at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology this symposium will consider the role of the microbiome in health and disease. Hear from world-leading experts in this exciting area with confirmed speakers including:

• keynote speaker: Cynthia Sears (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
• Dirk Haller (Technical University of Munich)
• Mahesh Desai (Luxembourg Institute of Health)
• Fiona Powrie (KIR, Oxford)
• Jamie Lorimer (OUCE, Oxford)
• Kevin Foster (Zoology, Oxford)

Talks will begin at 9.30am, with registration open from 9am. A networking drinks reception will follow in the evening. Full programme:

Post-docs and students are encouraged to submit abstracts for the poster session with the possibility of selection for a short talk. Please email a 200 word abstract to georgina.kerr@medsci.ox.ac.uk before 1st December, 2017.