Date: March 2-3, 2026 Venue: Aula Rogers, Building 1 (Leonardo Campus – Via Ampère 2)
This workshop brings together researchers from philosophical, sociological, and scientific backgrounds to explore the challenges and opportunities arising from contemporay postgenomics and at the intersection of microbiomics and exposomics.
Monday 2 March
9:00 – 9:30: Registration and welcome
9:30 – 11:00: Keynote – Elodie Giroux (Université Lyon 3, France), “Some Epistemological Challenges to the Integration of Health and Environment”
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00: Session 1
Davide Vecchi (UNED, Spain), “On some conceptual challenges in the transition towards an integrative mode of biological explanation”
Thomas Bonnin & Stefano Canali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), “Integrating Repertoires? The Case of Exposomics and Microbiomics”
Susan V.H. Castro (Wichita State University, USA), “Mental Exposomes and their Microbiomes”
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch (University restaurant Ad Arte)
14:30 – 16:00: Session 2
Sammie Jensen (Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands), “Mapping the Ethical Landscape of Exposome Research for Public Health”
Elian Schure, Aline Potiron, & Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University, Netherlands), “Microbiome Research in the Local South: Implications for Exposomics “
Daan Kenis (University of Antwerp, Belgium), “Epistemic Harm in Exposomics: Implications for Precision Public Health”
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: Keynote – Nicola Segata (Università di Trento, Italy), TBC
Tuesday 3 March
9:00 – 10:30: Session 3
Federico Boem (Università Niccolò Cusano, Italy) & Ingrid Lamminpää (University of Florence, Italy), “Microbiome, postgenomics and health: from labs to post-labs”
Rose Gatfield-Jeffries (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “Exposomics, ExWAS, and the representational mismatch in between”
Zdenka Brzovic & Predrag Sustar (University of Rijeka, Croatia), “Understanding Function in Exposomics”
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Parallel session 4
Robert Meunier (Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria), “Beyond post-genomics: The exposome, the microbiome, and the new era of multimodal biomedicine”
Sofia Belardinelli (University of Padova, Italy), “Ecological and Evolutionary Timescales in Conflict: An Evolutionary Explanation for Noncommunicable Diseases”
Iona Walker (University of Helsinki, Finland), “Re-imagining Relations in Postgenomic AMR Research”
