3rd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes

Conference Scope

Biologists and biomedical scientists are becoming increasingly aware that animals and plants have coevolved with diverse assemblages of microorganisms that are required for normal health and development. Not surprisingly, the activity of these symbiont communities is also likely to profoundly affect all aspects of the host’s physiology and immunology.
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Program/Abstracts Book

The program consists of 5 days of activity.

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Program Committee

Principal Organizers:
Ned Ruby, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, TX

Co-organizers:
Richard Darveau, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Jonathan Eisen, Ph.D.
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA

Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Robert Knight, Ph.D.
The University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO

Dennis Mangan, Ph.D.
USC School of Dentistry
Los Angeles, CA

Margaret McFall-Ngai, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

David Relman, M.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Justin L. Sonnenburg, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

SPONSORSHIPS
We would like to acknowledge the following for their financial contributions to this conference: