Highlighted Posters from the 2025 ISAPP Annual Meeting

In this second special episode about ISAPP’s annual meeting, held in Banff (Canada) in July 2025, Executive Director Marla Cunningham introduces the four highest-scoring posters from the poster session. Four speakers, all members of the ISAPP Students and Fellows association (SFA), join the podcast to describe the work they presented via poster at the meeting:

• Benjamin Levine (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA): Individual intestinal motility responses to acute whole-grain prebiotic ingestion mediates post-prandial nutrient metabolism: a single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial
• Caroline Dricot (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Isala citizen-science study: navigating the vaginal microbiome’s metabolic landscape
• Ceylon Simon (University College Cork and APC Microbiome Ireland; fellow in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions “Cell Envelope Anti-Bacterials”, or CLEAR, Doctoral Network): Targeted microbiome editing using a novel bacteriophage-derived endolysin with lytic activity against C. difficile 
• Dr. Qinnan Yang, PhD (University of Michigan, USA): Synergistic interaction of Akkermansia muciniphila and mucin-degrading Bacteroides in Inflammatory bowel diseases

Episode abbreviations and links:

• The ISAPP Annual Meeting Program Guide, with abstracts for each poster presentation

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