In April 2016, the microbiome clubs of MIT and Harvard partnered to hold the inaugural MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium, with generous support from the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics. We hosted two keynotes speakers: Yvonne Huang of University of Michigan spoke on asthma phenotypes and the respiratory microbiome, and Elaine Hsiao of UCLA spoke on microbiome gut-brain interactions. More than 300 people attended, with 20 research poster presentations.
Our next symposium in March 2017 was just as successful. We featured Harvard’s Rachel Carmody on dietary manipulations of the gut microbiome and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Jasmohan Bajaj on gut-brain axis perturbations in liver cirrhosis as our keynote speakers.
We’re excited this year to present another daylong symposium bringing researchers and clinicians from the Boston area together to share the latest research in the microbiome and human health.
3rd Annual MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium 