The slow posting is because on Monday (letter L day) my conference started. L could also stand for long day, though not as long as the rest of the week. Today we started at 10am with registration and 11am for the Welcome.
Today was mainly about the early life origins of type 1 diabetes, mainly microbiota. The most memorable talk, the sharing of gut bacterial strains between infants and their families. Obviously, babies start of with strong sharing of strains with their Mum's, persisting as long as they are breast fed. However then their strains start to shift towards their older siblings, it's not clear why, possibly because their guts have a more similar bacterial niche (environment), such as a more similar diet. Then children start nursery and their bacterial strains shift again to shared strains with their peers. Ick!
We finished the conference about 5:30pm but I was at the conference venue until 9pm working with my committee on our presentations for Wednesday.
We left to find food but all the restaurants kitchens were closing so eventually we ended up in the central shopping area having Mc Donald's at 10pm. Raspberry Fanta - yum!
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