1. Host Barriers against Microbiota: Traditional Views and Recent Advances 2. Neonatal Establishment of Microbiome Ecosystem and Intestinal Barrier: How Developmental Programming of Gut Microbiota Impacts Adult Disease Progression 3. Epithelial Junctional Proteins for Physical Defense, Cell-Cell Contact, and Polarity Complex 4. Unconventional Roles of Tight Junctions in Cell Survival and Ion Transport 5. Epithelial Microvilli and Transcellular Permeability in the Cause-and-Effect Relationship between Barrier Dysfunction and Microbiota Dysbiosis 6. Wound Healing and Barrier Integrity: Cellular and Molecular Players in Gastric Mucosal Repair 7. Mucosal Pathophysiology: The Role of Gut Microbiota Biofilms during Host-Pathogen Interplay 8.

Antagonism between Gut Microbiota Modulates the Progression of Chronic Hepatitis 9. The Role of Microbiome-Mucosal Barrier Interactions in Neoplastic Diseases 10. The Interplay of Gut Microbiota and Energy Homeostasis in Obesity-related Diseases 11. Refining the Role of Gut Microbiota in the Developmental Programming of Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Syndrome 12. Interrelationship between Intestinal Immune Cells and Barrier Function in the Development of Neurodegenerative Diseases 13. Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Gatekeepers of Gut-Brain Axis, Microbiome, and Beyond 14. Epithelial Barriers and Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Microbiome, and Beyond 15. The Role of Gut Microbiota in Cancer Development and Translational Modulation Strategies 16.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potentials Targeting the Interplay of Host Barriers and Microbiota in Human Diseases 17. The Dietary Restoration of Intestinal Barrier Function by Nutrient-Sensing Receptors 18. Dietary Factors and Next-Generation Probiotics for Microbiota Eubiosis and Barrier Fortification.