BCNBP National Day 
"FOOD, FLORA and FEELINGS"
Friday, June 6h 2025
Royal Library of Belgium, Auditorium Panorama, Kunstberg 28, Brussels
Morning session: Hunger and craving food (Chair: Philippe de Timary)
9:30 ‘Anorexia nervosa and gut microbiota. The chicken or the egg?’, Laura DI LODOVICO, Clinique des Maladies Mentales et de l'Encéphale, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences.
10:10 ‘Obesity, a disease of the brain ?’, Roman VANGOITSENHOVEN, Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology, KUL.
10:50 Coffee break.
11:15 Debate: Is Ozempic a new psychopharmacological drug?
12:00 Lunch.
Afternoon session: Gut feelings (Chair: Cleo Crunelle)
13:15 ‘Isolated by their gut microbiota? The case of alcohol use disorder’, Philippe DE TIMARY, Institute of Neuroscience, UCL.
13:55 ‘Small molecules, big impact? Short-chain fatty acids as microbiota-gut-brain axis mediators of human psychophysiology’, Lukas VAN OUDENHOVE, LabGAS, KUL.
14:35 Conclusions.
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Registration fee: BCNBP members: free - Non-members: 95 euro - Trainees: 45 euro
Payment by bank transfer (IBAN: BE40 2900 1349 6963) with communication ‘06.06.2025 + name’.
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