Webinar Topics
On July 28, ASM co-hosted a webinar for Congressional staff and other stakeholders with the American Society for Nutrition on human microbiome research. Program panelists included Dr. Lita Proctor, former program coordinator of the Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Academy of °®¶¹´«Ã½ member Dr. Jeffrey Gordon.This webinar, jointly sponsored by the American Phytopathological Society, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Society for °®¶¹´«Ã½, will demonstrate why continued federal investments in microbiome and phytobiome research are necessary to support the plant ecosystems that help sustain life as we know it on planet Earth. Panelists will discuss what is needed to maintain progress in discovery through basic research and accelerate the translation of these findings into new and game-changing technologies that affect animal and human health and the environment around us, particularly as we face daunting challenges like climate change.
This webinar, jointly sponsored by the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and the American Society for °®¶¹´«Ã½, will showcase the NMDC’s role in developing a microbiome data ecosystem together with the scientific research community and the federal government. It will highlight the importance of data sharing in the microbiome sciences and demonstrate why continued federal investment in research infrastructure to support Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) microbiome data, such as data standards, computational infrastructure, and workforce, is critical for advancing microbiome research with broad societal impacts.
