NCBC Microbiome Symposium on October 1

The 2020 NCBC Microbiome Symposium is on Thursday, October 1st, from 10:00AM – 1:30PM. This annual event is organized by the North Carolina Microbiome Consortium, which includes the DMC. This year’s symposium is virtual, and includes several talks from local microbiome scientists as well as a keynote lecture from Dr. Janet Jansson from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. To receive a link to this virtual meeting please RSVP HERE.

Agenda

10:00-11:00AM: Welcome and Session 1: From Academia to Industry

1. Jenny Ting – “The host microbiota in health and diseases”
   University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2. Peter Ferket – “An ecological approach to manage the gut microbiome to resist enteric disease”
   North Carolina State University

11:00-12:30PM: Session 2: Innovation in Technologies for Microbiome Analysis

1. Karen Lloyd – “Linking subsurface microbes to plate tectonics”
   University of Tennessee
2. Rachel Bleich – “Barcoding to study microbial interactions in complex community”
   Appalachian State University
3. Lawrence David – “Genomic approaches for dietary and microbiome analysis”
   Duke University

12:30-1:30PM: Keynote speaker: Janet Jansson – “Multi-omics of Microbiomes – From Metagenomes to Metaphenomes”