Join the UCSF Emeriti Faculty Association (UCSF EFA) for a virtual talk by guest speaker, Susan Lynch, PhD, director of Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine and professor of medicine at UCSF.
The developmental origins of asthma are rooted in pre- and early post-natal exposures, many of which shape early-life gut microbiome composition and function. Dr. Lynch will cover how microbiome profiling has revealed infant gut microbiomes linked to childhood allergy and asthma development, uncovering microbial mechanisms of immune dysfunction that underlie disease development. She will also share how recent studies examining the pre- and early post-natal period have demonstrated that disease inheritance is, in part, related to patterns of microbial and epigenetic inheritance, laying the groundwork for early-life microbiome manipulation interventions to prevent disease development.
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