BBB seminar: Trygve Hausken

Trygve Hausken
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen

In my research group we have currently two centers of excellence:

1. National Center for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, involving both 2D and 3D ultrasound of the gastrointestinal tract
2. National Center for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, involving the brain-gut axis

In the latter, the focus is on microbiota and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a healthy donor to a disease recipient.

This presentation will deal with

• the definition of microbiota and FMT,
• the cross-talk between microbes and brain,
• the involvement of immunology and gastrointestinal hormones,

and the questions:

• In which diseases are FMTs possible?
• How to recruit donors?
• What is a super donor?

Chairperson: Gro Vatne Røsland, Department of Biomedicine