This forum will feature presentations from internationally renowned microbiome experts, including:
- Alumna Carolee Bull, Department Head and Professor of Plant Pathology and Systematic Bacteriology at Penn State University
- Titus Brown, Associate Professor of Population Health and Reproduction at the University of California, Davis
- Jack Gilbert, Group Leader for Microbial Ecology in the Biosciences Division at Argonne National Laboratories, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago, Associate Director for the Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology.
- Karen Guillemin, Director of the University of Oregon MetaCenter. Professor of Biology and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology
- Janet Jansson, Division Director of Biological Sciences, Sector Manager for the US DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research’s Biological Systems Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
- Rosa Leon, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Delaware
- Maria Marco, Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis
- Trent Northen, Interim Director for the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
- Lita Proctor, Program Coordinator Human Microbiome Project, National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
