Nutrients Webinar | Prebiotics and Probiotics in Immune Health
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6th Nutrients Webinar
Prebiotics and Probiotics in Immune Health
Prebiotics and/or probiotics supplementation are strategies for the treatment of non-communicable diseases and for strengthening our immune system and our microbiota. Probiotics have been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the WHO (FAO/WHO) as “live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host”. The definition of prebiotic has been recently updated by the ISAPP as “a substrate that is selectively utilized by host microorganisms conferring a health benefit”.
These fields have exploded in recent years due to the increased knowledge of the human gut microbiota and the awareness about the health implication of dysbiosis.
Both prebiotics and probiotics have been used for different applications and currently, their mechanistic effects are more understood.
This Special Issue of Nutrients aims to present a collection of papers to give an overview of new findings and concepts in the field of probiotics and prebiotics, including results on next-generation probiotics, the impact of interventions at different stages (pregnancy, early life, adult, elderly), and on different pathological situations.
Date: 21 September 2022
Time: 11:00 am CEST | 5:00 am EDT | 5:00 pm CST Asia | 5:00 pm AWST
Webinar ID: 818 9782 4204
Webinar Secretariat: nutrients.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Paris-Saclay University, France;
Claire cherbuy has been working in the field of gut microbiota-host interaction for more than 20 years at the National Institute of Agronomical and Environmental Research in France. She obtained her PhD in 1996 and since then has published more than 50 articles and reviews in this field. She is an expert in nutrition, probiotics, prebiotics. She has been a guest lecturer at several national and international congresses and is on a scientific board of nutrition experts.
Bodinier Marie, Allergy Team, UR1268 BIA, INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), France;
Dr Marie Bodinier, (BSc, BND, PhD) is research director (DR2) at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE, BIA unit) and head of the Allergy team of the BIA unit in Nantes (France). She is a qualified immunologist and researcher with expertise in allergic disease. She is leading translational research to understand the early mechanisms of allergy development and to establish perinatal nutritional strategies for allergy prevention. Currently, she is coordinating the clinical trial PREGRALL (clinical trial : NCT03183440, 2018-2021) assessing the effects of prebiotics supplementation during pregnancy for allergy prevention (C. Cabridain, et al. 2019. BMJ open.) and the ancillary study CIMMAP funded by the ANR.
The webinar has been organized within the framework of the special issue "Prebiotics and Probiotics in Immune Health".
Here, 4 speakers presented the work they have published in the special issue. This includes the following: firstly, Debra Palmer presented a clinical trial carried out to investigate the impact of maternal Prebiotic Dietary Fibre Supplementation on Child Allergic Disease Outcomes. Secondly, Lucie Etienne-Mesmin presented her work on the beneficial effects of lentils and yeast fibres on enteric pathogens and lastly. Thirdly, Muriel Thomas demonstrated the positive impact of a probiotic strain on pulmonary Infections in preclinical models. Finally, Carole Brousseau discussed the effect of prebiotics and probiotics on B cell maturation.
All these presentations suggest prebiotics and probiotics can have many applications in health. Works are constantly progressing in this field and we hope in the future years to have promising effects.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chairs. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Nutrients, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Claire Cherbuy & Prof. Dr. Marie Bodinier
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022