Microbiome in Inflammatory Lung Diseases

Introduction to Lung Diseases.- Introduction to Microbiome.- Role of Microbiome in Inflammation.- The interplay of microbiome, inflammation, and immunity in inflammatory lung diseases.- Microbiome in Asthma.- Microbiome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.- Microbiome in Asthma-COPD Overlap syndrome (ACO).- Microbiome in ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome).- Role of brain-gut- microbiome axis in Depression co-morbid with COPD or Asthma.- Microbiome in Lung Cancer.- Microbiome in Pulmonary Tuberculosis.- Lung Microbiome: Friend or Foe of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.- Microbiome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Microbiome in SARS-Cov2 (Covid-19).- Status of the microbiome in SARS-Cov2 (Covid-19).- Microbiome in Influenza-A Virus Infection.- Microbiome in Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI).- Challenges in understanding the lung microbiota.- Microbiome in Inflammatory Lung Diseases: Challenges and Future Prospects.- Microbiota targeted via nanotechnology for lung cancer therapy: Challenges and future perspectives.

Dr. Gaurav Gupta is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the Suresh Gyan Vihar University (SGUV), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He has more than eleven years of experience in molecular and biochemical pharmacology, including respiratory diseases and cancer biology by employing experimental animal models to understand the cellular and molecular mechanism. Dr. Gupta is dedicated to improving outcomes in healthcare through his initiatives in pharmacology and phytochemistry research and effective teaching in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Gupta has more than 300 research and review articles in peer-reviewed international journals and is co-author of one book. He is a member of various national and international societies.

Prof. Brian G. Oliver is currently the co-director of the Respiratory, Sleep, Environmental and Occupational Health clinical academic group of Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), A NHMRC AHRTC. He is a translational researcher who aims to identify and develop new ways of treating respiratory diseases. His scientific training began at the National Heart and Lung Institute, UK, where he mastered the isolation and in-vitro culture of several types of human lung cells. He then had further training in both molecular biology (University of Leeds) and then respiratory virology at Imperial College, UK, before commencing his PhD at The University of Sydney. He now leads the Respiratory Cellular and Molecular Biology Group with laboratory facilities located at both UTS and the Woolcock Institute. The work from his group is recognised to be amongst the best in the world, evidenced by selection for presentation at symposia at both national and large international conferences as well as resulting in prestigious publications.

Dr. Kamal Dua is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Pharmacy at the Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney