Human microbiome science: vision for the future, Bethesda, MD, July 24 to 26, 2013

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Jacques Ravel, University of Maryland; Martin J Blaser, Langone Medical Center; Jonathan Braun, University of California; Eric Brown, University of British Columbia; Frederic D Bushman, University of Pennsylvania; Eugene B Chang, University of Chicago; Julian Davies, University of British Columbia; Kathryn G Dewey, University of California; Timothy Dinan, Cork University Hospital; Maria Dominguez-Bello, Langone Medical Center; Susan E Erdman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B Brett Finlay, University of Pennsylvania; Wendy S Garrett, Harvard University; Gary B Huffnagle, University of Michigan; Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University; Janet Jansson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Ian B Jeffery, University College Cork; Christian Jobin, University of Florida; Alexander Khoruts, Medical Biosciences Building; Heidi H Kong, National Institutes of Health; Johanna W Lampe, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Ruth E Ley, Cornell University; Dan R Littman, Skirball Institute; Sarkis K Mazmanian, California Institute of Technology; David A Mills, University of California; Andrew S Neish, Emory University; Elaine Petrof, Queens University; David A Relman, Stanford University; Rosamond Rhodes, Icahn School of Medicine; Peter J Turnbaugh, Harvard University; Vincent B Young, University of Michigan; Rob Knight, University of Colorado; Owen White, University of Maryland
• Language: English
• Date: 2014-07-18
• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2014 Ravel et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://www.microbiomejournal.com/content/2/1/16
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Microbiome
• ISSN: 2049-2618
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 16
• Grant/Funding Information: The conference organizers are grateful to Roche, Qiagen, Illumina, Life Technologies, MoBio, Metabolon, and the BioMed Central journal Microbiome for their financial support of the meeting.; The conference was supported in part by grant U01HG004866 from the National Human Genomics Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Pathology; Health Sciences, Immunology

Abstract

A conference entitled ‘Human microbiome science: Vision for the future’ was organized in Bethesda, MD from July 24 to 26, 2013. The event brought together experts in the field of human microbiome research and aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the state of microbiome research, but more importantly to identify and discuss gaps, challenges and opportunities in this nascent field. This report summarizes the presentations but also describes what is needed for human microbiome research to move forward and deliver medical translational applications.