Meeting Purpose

This workshop is part of the NIEHS Microbiome outreach activities assessing the impact of environmental exposures on human health. The goals of the workshop were as follows:

1. To understand the relationship between environmental agents, the microbiome, and human health
2. To build a network of environmental health microbiome researchers
3. To determine if best practices can be developed by assessing environmental contaminants and the microbiome

This workshop was a 2-day format, with a plenary lecture each day and speakers covering the following 4 topics:

• Health and Toxicity
• Environmental Exposures
• Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME)
• Models and Methods

The workshop was free and open to the public. Plenary talks, speaker sessions, and lightning-round (3 min) presentations over lunch were webcast. Breakout sessions were held for each of the 4 topic areas and reports from the breakouts were presented at the end of each day. See the Printable Agenda (91KB).

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are short presentations on any microbiome-focused work that relates to one of the 4 main topics of the workshop (Health and Toxicity, Environmental Exposures, Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME), and/or Models and Methods). Talks were 3 minutes in length and 2 minutes for questions, with no more than 3 - 4 slides total. Talks were webcast.

Recordings

• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health Workshop Day 1 – a.m. Part 1
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health Workshop Day 1 – a.m. Part 2
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Workshop Day 1 – Lightning Talk A
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Workshop Day 1 – Lightning Talk B
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health Workshop Day 2 – a.m. Part 1
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health Workshop Day 2 – a.m. Part 2
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Workshop Day 2 – Lightning Talk A
• The Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Workshop Day 2 – Lightning Talk B

Questions?

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