Microbiome in Health and Disease

Keystone Symposia, Silverthorne CO

Investigators

Abstract

ABSTRACT Support is requested for a Keystone Symposia meeting entitled Microbiome in Health and Disease, organized by Drs. Julie A. Segre, Ramnik Xavier and William Michael Dunne. The meeting will be held in Keystone, Colorado from February 5-9, 2017. This Keystone Symposia meeting brings together experts in clinical medicine, clinical microbiology, microbial genomics, and bacterial genetics to explore how both strain variation and underlying microbial community determine health and disease. Genomic advances provide higher-level resolution to both pathogen and host genetic determinants. This meeting aims to explore how monitoring and potentially altering the microbial community may modulate and predict disease risk. Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be significantly enhanced by the concurrent meeting on Inflammation-Driven Cancer: Mechanisms to Therapy, which will share a plenary session with this meeting. Relevance to NIAID: This meeting brings together scientific experts to discuss novel therapies that prevent or correct microbial community dysfunction to promote health and treat disease. Meeting participants will explore mechanisms of microbial community resilience and human immunity to find novel strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance and emerging pathogens, bacterial, fungal and viral.