International Microbiome and Multi'omics Standards Alliance

About IMMSA:

The International Microbiome and Multi-Omics Standards Alliance (IMMSA) is an open consortium of microbiome-focused researchers from industry, academia, and government. IMMSA was formed for the mutual benefit of the entire microbiome scientific community and will focus specifically on coordinating cross-cutting efforts that address microbiome measurement challenges. IMMSA members are representative experts for all major microbiological ecosystems (e.g. human/animal, built, and environmental ecosystems) and are representative experts from various scientific disciplines including microbiology, bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, epidemiology, and statistics. This will naturally expand as the science evolves. While remaining non-hierarchical, IMMSA will consist of a steering committee that oversees the activities of the consortium and implements the major directives of the consortium.

Mark your calendars!

August 22-25, 2022 - 1st Annual IMMSA workshop (This will be a combined virtual and in-person event)

October 21st, 2022 12pm EDT

January 20th, 2023 12pm EST

April 21st, 2022, 12pm EDT

"Bridging the gap between analytical and microbial science in microbiome research"

Dr. Maryam Goudarzi, Senior Manager of Metabolomics & Lipidomics, Global Strategic Marketing at SCIEX

April 15th, 2021, 12pm EST - recording available for IMMSA members

Scott Jackson - NIST - IMMSA Re-Launch

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh - DOE Joint Genome Institute

Siyuan Chen- Twist Bioscience

July 15th, 2021 12pm EST - recording available for IMMSA members

Scott Jackson - NIST- Recent Progress Towards Microbiome Standards Development at NIST

Jonathan Jacobs and Briana Benton - ATCC - Data Provenance & Authenticity for Microbial Reference Genomes

IMMSA Working Group Launch

October 21st, 2021 12pm EST- recording available for IMMSA members

Denise O'Sullivan - LGC- Microbiome Standards Development at LGC

Michael McLaren - NCSU - Accounting for Taxonomic Bias in Metagenomics Experiments

Updates on IMMSA Working Groups - Working Group Leadership Teams

January 20th, 2022 12pm EST - recording available for IMMSA members
Katrine Whiteson - UC Irvine
Updates on IMMSA Working Groups - Working Group Leadership Teams