Thank you for a successful inaugural MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium! Photos and future events will be updated on our Facebook page shortly. Please direct all feedback to microbiome-club-symposium@mit.edu. Thank you!
12:00 PM Registration & Lunch
12:35 PM Introductory Remarks
Eric Alm, MIT Director, Center for Microbiome Informatics & Therapeutics
12:45 PM Opening keynote speaker
Dr. Yvonne Huang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Asthma Phenotypes and the Respiratory Microbiome
1:30 PM Selected talks from abstract submissions
Lily Xu, MIT, Broad Institute
Virtual Microfluidics for Digital Quantification and Single-cell Sequencing
Brian Goodman, Evelo Biosciences
Characterizing the Cancer Microbiome: Bacteria as the Next Wave of Immunotherapy
Shirali Pandya, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Investigation of the Role of Bacteriophages in the Etiology of Bacterial Vaginosis Amongst Women in India
Tibor Krisko, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Regulation of Adaptive Thermogenesis by the Gut Microbiome
2:45 PM Poster session & Industry presentations
Poster session by students and researchers
Presentations by microbiome industries and start-ups
4:00 PM Closing keynote speaker
Dr. Elaine Hsiao, University of California Los Angeles
Microbiome Gut-Brain Interactions in Health and Disease
4:45 PM Award Presentation
4:50 PM Networking & Social @Mead Hall
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