The Society for Applied Microbiology would like to invite all scientists with an interest in the human microbiome to attend and participate in The Microbiome and Human Health meeting on 12 April 2017 at The Bloomsbury Hotel, London.

Since we discovered that microbes cause infectious diseases, we’ve largely focused on keeping them under control. As we come to better understand these organisms, there’s growing evidence that an imbalance in those microbes can affect our well-being and may contribute to a range of chronic conditions.

Plenary Lecture

High-throughput genome sequencing to investigate microbial communities
Anne Neville
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

Featured speakers include:

The regulation of host defence by the commensal microbiota
Thomas Clarke, Imperial College London, UK

The gut virome and phage ecogenomics
Lesley Ogilvie, University of Brighton, UK

Probiotics and suppression of gut infections
Simon Cutting, Royal Holloway
University of London, UK

Vaginal microbiota
Janneke Van De Wijgert,
University of Liverpool, UK

Interactions between Neisseria commensals in the nasopharynx
Rob Read, University of Southampton, UK

Whats bugging you? Microbiome as a key regulator of brain and behaviour
John Cryan, University of Cork, Ireland