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Table 1 Emerging Themes workshop themes and keynote speakers

From: 2017 NIH-wide workshop report on “The Human Microbiome: Emerging Themes at the Horizon of the 21st Century”

Day

Theme

Keynote speaker

Presentation title

1

Overview and approaches

Dr. Howard Ochman

What the great ape microbiome can tell us about the human microbiome

2

Interactions of the host-microbiome system

Dr. Jeffrey Gordon

The gut microbiota and childhood undernutrition: looking at human development from a microbial perspective

3

Microbiome interventions for maintaining health and treating disease

Dr. Eric Alm

Microbiome interventions: from fecal transplants to synthetic microbial therapeutics