The Chase Park Plaza Hotel
212-232 N. Kingshighway Blvd
St. Louis, Missouri 63108

Conference Overview

The human microbiome may be key to health and disease, yet the exact relationship between the microbiome and the human is not clearly understood. Attend the Human Microbiome Research Conference to share insights and learn more about research this area. This conference was open to the entire scientific community interested in human microbiome and metagenomic research.

Conference Topics
Conference speakers talked about the following:

• Human microbiome at different body sites including skin, gut, vagina, oral and airways
• Changes in the human microbiome with disease and health conditions
• Complexity of the human microbiome
• Ethical, legal and social implications of human microbiome studies
• New technologies for the study of the human microbiome
• New bioinformatics tool development for analysis of human microbiome data
• Other metagenomic research areas

Research Resources
The HMP was developing resources to further scientific knowledge about the relationship between the microbiome and human health and disease. These resources, which are available to the community, can enhance our understanding by:

• Studying the diversity of the human microbiome
• Understanding the relationship between the human microbiome and changes in human health and disease
• Determining whether there is a core human microbiome

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