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Dr. Riadh Hammami is an Associate Professor of Gut Microbiology at the University of Ottawa, where he also serves as the Director of the School of Nutrition Sciences. His research focuses on the role of probiotics and their metabolites in modulating the gut microbiota and their potential applications in health and food safety. Dr. Hammami’s research program integrates single-cell, multi-omics approaches, and human gut models to investigate the neurosecretory role of the gut microbiome and next-generation probiotics. A major interest of his team is unraveling mechanisms of microbiome-host communication, with a particular focus on microbial extracellular vesicles. Dr. Hammami completed in 2004 his Master's degree in Biochemistry at the University of Tunis El Manar. He received in 2009 his Doctorate in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Lille1 - Sciences & Technologies (France) in conjunction with the University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia). He then completed five years of post-doctoral training in Food Sciences & Technologies at Université Laval, Canada. He was afterward a research scientist at the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Food (INAF), Université Laval. In 2017, Dr. Hammami joined the School of Nutrition Sciences, at the University of Ottawa as Assistant Professor, where he continues to advance research on the gut microbiome and its complex interactions with human health.