Last updated: June 16, 2014
Human Microbiome Science Vision For The Future
Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future
July 24-26, 2013
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, Md. 20852
(301) 822-9200
The purpose of this meeting, supported in part by an NIH grant to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is to provide an overview of cutting-edge work in NIH-supported microbiome research and to identify both the obstacles to and opportunities for progress in this emerging area of biomedical research.
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Meeting Report [microbiomejournal.com] 
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Theme of the Day: Overview and Approaches
| Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call to Order, Charge for the Meeting
| Owen R. White, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 2 | Supercharging Science for the Superorganism
| Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. National Institutes of Health |
| 3 | NIH Human Microbiome Project: An Update
| Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. NHGRI |
| 4 | Keynote 1: Diversity, Stability and Resilience of the Microbiome
| David A. Relman, M.D. Stanford School of Medicine |
| 5 | ELSI Issues and Microbiome Studies
| Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital |
| 6 | The Microbiome and Obama Administration Science Program
| Robbie Barbero, Ph.D. Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Basic Biology of the Microbiome | ||
| 7 | Microbiome Colonization and Assembly
| Ruth E. Ley, Ph.D. Cornell University |
| 8 | Microbiome Dynamics in Adults
| Jacques Ravel, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 9 | Composition and Dynamics of the Human Virome
| Frederic D. Bushman, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Microbiome Tools, Technologies, Approaches Part 1 | ||
| 10 | Multi-omics of the Human microbiome - Filling in the Missing Links
| Janet Jansson, Ph.D. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11 | Approaches for Host Immune/Microbiome Studies
| Dan Rudolf Littman, M.D. Ph.D. New York University |
| 12 | Functional Analysis of Human Microbiome, Metagenomes, Metatranscriptomes, and Multi'omics
| Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D. Harvard School of Public Health |
| Microbiome Tools, Technologies, Approaches Part 2 | ||
| 13 | From Correlation to Causation in Human Microbiome Studies
| Rob Knight, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute AND University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 14 | Large Data Management, Data Standards, Data Sharing
| Owen R. White, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 15 | Open Floor Discussion
| Ed Yong Nature/National Geographic |
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Theme of the Day: Interactions of the Host/Microbiome System
| Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Day 2 Introduction
| Owen R. White, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 17 | Keynote 2: The Modern vs Ancestral Microbiome
| Maria Dominguez-Bello, Ph.D. New York University |
| Host Immune System/Microbiota Interactions | ||
| 18 | Bacterial Colonization Factors Control Specificity and Stability of Gut Microbiota
| Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology |
| 19 | Ground Zero - The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Host Epithelial Functions and Responses
| Eugene B. Chang, M.D. University of Chicago |
| 20 | Wound Healing to Longevity: Harnessing Microbe-Induced Hormonal and Immune Proficiency for Human Health
| Susan E. Erdman, D.V.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Microbiome and Disease Associations | ||
| 21 | Eczema, Immunity and the Skin Microbiome
| Heidi H. Kong, MD National Cancer Institute |
| 22 | The Lung Microbiome: Challenging Old Paradigms about Microbes and the Host Respiratory Tract
| Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D. University of Michigan |
| 23 | The Microbiome in Infectious and Noninfectious Gut Inflammation
| Vincent B. Young, M.D., Ph.D. University of Michigan |
| Functional Interactions between Host & Microbiome | ||
| 24 | Control of Epithelial Proliferation by the Microbiome
| Andrew S. Neish, M.D. Emory University School of Medicine |
| 25 | Moving Towards a Metagenomic Basis of Therapeutics
| Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ph.D. Harvard University |
| 26 | Microbial Metabolites and their Regulation of Colonic Regulatory T Cell Homeostasis
| Wendy S. Garrett, M.D., Ph.D. Harvard School of Public Health |
| Diet and the Microbiome | ||
| 27 | Diet-Microbiota Interactions and The Elderly
| Ian B. Jeffery, Ph.D. University College Cork |
| 28 | Diet, Childhood Nutrition and the Microbiome
| Kathryn G. Dewey, Ph.D. University of California, Davis |
| 29 | Gut Microbial Metabolism of Food Constituents: Modulating Human Dietary Exposures
| Johanna W. Lampe, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| 30 | Open Floor Discussion
| Ed Yong Nature/National Geographic |
Friday, July 26, 2013
Theme of the Day: Translational Research and the Microbiome
| Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Keynote 3: Translational Science and the Microbiome
| Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles |
| 32 | The Microbiome: Getting to Products that Benefit Patients
| Jesse L. Goodman, M.D. Food and Drug Administration |
| Translation - Body/Microbiome Axis | ||
| 33 | Microbiome, Brain and Behavior
| Ted Dinan, MD, Ph.D. University College Cork |
| 34 | Microbiome and Obesity
| Martin J. Blaser, M.D. New York University |
| 35 | Microbiome and Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers
| Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic |
| 36 | From Associative Microbial Dysbiosis Observation to Functional Cancer Studies: What Have We Larned from Colorectal Cancer?
| Christian Jobin, Ph.D. University of Florida |
| 37 | Harvesting the Molecular Wealth of Microbiomes
| Julian Davies, Ph.D. The University of British Columbia |
| 38 | Human Microbiome Science Meeting - Housekeeping Items/Points of Interest
| Lita M. Proctor, Ph.D. NHGRI Owen R. White, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Probiotics, MB Vaccines, Fecal Transplants | ||
| 39 | State of the Science and Obstacles: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
| Alexander Khoruts, M.D. University of Minnesota |
| 40 | Use of Microbial Ecosystems to Treat Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection NOTE: This presentation is not available. | Elaine Petrof, M.D. Queen's University |
| 41 | A Milk-Oriented Microbiota (MOM) in Infants - How Babies find their MOMs: Insights for Next Generation Prebiotics and Probiotics
| David A. Mills, Ph.D. University of California, Davis |
| 42 | Microbiota and Vaccines
| Eric Brown, Ph.D. The University of British Columbia |
| 43 | Final Open Floor Discussion
| Ed Yong Nature/National Geographic |
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