To Improve the Lives of People with Functional GI Disorders

The Third Annual Rome Foundation/AGA Institute
Lectureship at Digestive Disease Week 2010


Erwin G. Zoetendal, PhD
Assistant professor
Laboratory for Microbiology
Wageningen University
Wageningen, The Netherlands


The Rome Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) were pleased to present their 3rd annual lectureship at Digestive Diseases Week (DDW). The lectureship is designed to address broad aspects of health care that are relevant to digestive diseases and the functional GI disorders.


This year's speaker was Erwin G. Zoetendal, PhD
who spoke on:

"Understanding Gut Microbiota:
A New Era in Gastroenterology."

Moderated by Co-Chairs Lin Chang, MD, and Douglas Drossman, MD, Dr. Zoetendal shed light on the mysteries of gut microbiota and provided an overview of gastrointestinal tract microbiota diversity by discussing culture-independent approaches to study microbiota diversity in relation to health and disease including functional gastrointestinal disorders as well as culture-independent approaches to study microbiota genetic potential and activity.


Learning Objectives for this event:
  1. Provide an overview of gastrointestinal tract microbiota diversity
  2. Discuss culture-independent approaches to study microbiota diversity in relation to health and disease, including functional gastrointestinal disorders.
  3. Discuss culture-independent approaches to study microbiota genetic potential and activity.