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Past Events
Microbiome Club Booth at the Cambridge Science Carnival
MIT/Kendall Open Space (292 Main St) Stick around and you can put yourself into the shoes of a microbiologist!
Melanie Blokesch: Once the pathogen becomes the host: How Vibrio cholerae defends against mobile genetic elements
Full Professor, EPFL – Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (Sabbatical at Harvard)
Jeffrey Moffitt: Imaging the microbe-host interface with genomic microscopy
Assistant Professor. Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Aimee Shen: Analyses of Clostridioides difficile phenotypic heterogeneity in vitro and in vivo.
Professor Aimee Shen, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University
2025 MIT Microbiome Symposium
The MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and the MIT Microbiome Club are proud to invite you to attend our annual MIT Microbiome Symposium on Friday, March 7th, 2025
From sequence graphs to processing bias: towards more informative microbiome representations
Professor Tal Korem, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
CMIT Clinical Research Talk & Mixer
Join the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics for an evening of food, networking, and learning, with Dr. Jason Zhang, CMIT Clinical Scientist and Attending Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.
CMIT Rasmussen Fellows Talks & Mixer
Join CMIT for an evening of food, networking, and learning, as our inaugural Rasmussen Fellows discuss key considerations for microbiome-based therapeutics.
The human skin microbiome: microbial modulation of skin homeostasis
Professor Julia Oh, Duke University
C. elegans as a discovery platform for host-microbe interactions
Professor Javier Irazoqui, UMass Chan Medical School
MIT Microbiome Symposium 2023
The MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and the MIT Microbiome Club are proud to invite you to participate in our annual MIT Microbiome Symposium
Microbiome in Oncology Symposium
The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (CMIT) and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (KI) will host a joint symposium on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021.
spin4 Crohn’s & Colitis Cures
Join us for spin4 crohn’s & colitis cures! This exciting and inspirational fundraising event supports the mission of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, which is to cure Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the quality of life of children and adults affected by these diseases.
CMIT Microbiome Series Seminar
Richard Bonneau, Center for Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York University Seminar Title TBD
Invertible promoters mediate microbial adaptation to the human gut
Brantley Hall, Xavier GroupMIT Microbiome Club, Grad Student/Postdoc Seminar
Impact of industrialization on the human gut microbiome
Mathieu Groussin, Global Microbiome Conservancy, CMIT work-in-progress, open to the public
cGAS-like enzymes in human immunity and bacteria–host signaling
Dr. Philip J. Kranzusch, (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Maternal gut bacteria, inflammation and neurodevelopmental disorder
Dr. Jun Huh, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
An Engineering Design Approach to Immunoassays
Dr. Hadley D. Sikes, (Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT)
Mechanistic Gut Microbiome Studies in Health & Disease
Dr. Wendy Garrett, (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard H.T. Chan School of Public Health)
Metabolic interactions between the gut microbiota and its host at the mucosal interface
Gary Wu, Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cooperation and Competition in the human gut microbiota
Andrew Goodman, Yale University School of Medicine