February 23 - 24, 2021
Virtual Meeting
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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:
- To understand the relationship between environmental agents, the microbiome, and human health
- To build a network of environmental health microbiome researchers
- 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