FEBRUARY 24th, 2025

AGENDA

7:30A

Welcome & Wake Up Fluids

Linda Brubaker, MD

Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences • University of California, San Diego

7:45A

UROBIOME research ─ Picking up Speed

Alan Wolfe, PhD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology • Loyola University Chicago

8:00A

Urinary tract infection revisited: elucidating microbial eco-evolutionary drivers and regulators

Marjon de Vos, dr. ir. | VIRTUAL

Assistant Professor, Science and Engineering • University of Groningen

8:45A

Urobiome of SCI/D – installation treatments

Suzanne Groah, MD, MSPH

Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine • Director of Rehabilitation and Recovery • Georgetown University

9:15A

Mouse urobiome and improved mouse models

Katie Forster, MD, MS, FAAP

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics • University of Pittsburgh

 9:30A

QA – Discussion

9:45A

BREAK

10:15A

Metabolic requirements of the urinary microbiome – Shaping health versus disease

Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD

Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Urology • Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation • Vanderbilt School of Medicine

10:45A

The NIDDK PLUS RISE Study ─ Urobiome Findings

Linda Brubaker, MD

Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences • University of California, San Diego

11:15A

QA – Discussion

11:30P

Lunch Break & Roundtables

New sequencing technologies

Rob Knight, PhD and team

Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research, Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, Computer Science & Engineering • Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation • University of California, San Diego

Enhanced culture methods

Alan Wolfe, MD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology • Loyola University Chicago

Study design

Mimi Lukacz, MD, MAS

Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences • Division Director, URPS • University of California, San Diego

Bioinformatic and biostatistics

Lisa Karstens, PhD

Associate Professor, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology • Oregon Health & Science University

1:00P

Insights on urobiome: Handling low biomass samples

Lisa Karstens, PhD

Associate Professor, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology • Oregon Health & Science University

1:30P

Kidney stones and the urobiome

Fengping Liu, DNP

Doctor of Nursing Practice and Researcher, Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology • Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University

2:00P

The importance of interconnected microbiomes in urology

Jeremy Burton, PhD, MSc

Miriam Burnett Chair, Urological Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics • Western University Canada

2:30A

QA – Discussion

2:45P

BREAK

3:00P

Science at the Coal Face: Incorporating urobiome science in clinical care

Rajvinder Khasriya, PhD, MD | VIRTUAL

Consultant Urogynecologist • Whittington Health, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Eastman Dental Institute, Principal Clinical Investigator Bladder Infection & Immunology Group • University College London

3:30P

Updating Consensus Manuscript

Mimi Lukacz, MD, MAS

Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences • Division Director, URPS • University of California, San Diego

Naz Siddiqui, MD, MHSc

Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology • Duke University

4:15A

QA – Discussion

4:30P

Closing

4:45

Social & Network Hour