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ABOUT IMMSA:
Founded in 2015, IMMSA is a global scientific consortium dedicated to improving reproducibility, interoperability, and quality in microbiome and multi-omics research. IMMSA brings together more than 900 international members, including researchers, clinicians, government agencies, industry leaders, and standards organizations, to address shared scientific and technical challenges across the rapidly evolving microbiome landscape.
Scientific Standards
Scientific Standards
As microbiome science transitions from discovery to clinical and commercial applications, the need for harmonized methods, validated workflows, and community-driven standards has never been greater. IMMSA serves as a neutral collaborative forum focused on advancing best practices in microbiome measurement, analytical validation, benchmarking, regulatory science, and related multi-omics integration.
Community Initiatives
Community Initiatives
Through scientific working groups, collaborative initiatives, virtual webinars, workshops, and cross-sector partnerships, IMMSA aims to help build the foundational infrastructure needed to accelerate credible, reproducible, and translational microbiome science.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship Opportunities
As a nonprofit organization, IMMSA welcomes industry sponsorships, institutional partnerships, philanthropic support, and community participation to help expand its scientific programs, educational initiatives, workshops, and standards-development activities.
Join IMMSA
Join IMMSA
Researchers, clinicians, companies, nonprofits, regulators, and trainees interested in shaping the future of microbiome and related multi-omics standards are encouraged to participate. Free membership registration is available for individuals and organizations interested in joining the global community.
Past Webinars
Past Webinars
2024
2024
January 25th, 2024 - recording and slides available for IMMSA members; notes coming soon!
Panel Discussion: “Ten Guiding Principles for Microbiome Research” [Ahmed Moustafa (UPenn, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Katrine Whiteson (UCI), Andrea Azcarate-Peril (UNC-Chapel Hill), Jonathan Jacobs (UCLA), Julia Kelliher (LANL)]
Bioinformatics WG Seminar Series (sessions were not recorded unless otherwise noted)
Bioinformatics WG Seminar Series (sessions were not recorded unless otherwise noted)
April 18th, 2024 - A. Murat Eren (Meren), Professor. Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at Oldenburg
Reproducibility, interoperability, reusability, and flexibility in the anvi'o software ecosystem
May 9th, 2024 - Sushma Naithani, Associate Professor Senior Research. Oregon State University
Omics data reuse for synthesizing plant gene-networks and pathways for the Plant Reactome Knowledgebase
July 18th, 2024 - Marcus de Goffau, PhD. Recording will be available soon!
Enhancing contamination & genuine biological pattern recognition by looking elsewhere
2023
2023
Webinars
January 19th, 2023 - recording available for IMMSA members
Adam Rivers - USDA/ARS- Open Science to Radically Reduce Microbiome Cost
April 20th, 2023 - recording and notes available for IMMSA members
Panel Discussion: “Opportunities and challenges in the development and use of microbial reference materials” [Robert Schlaberg (Illumina), Hena Ramay (International Microbiome Centre), Ishi Keenum (NIST), Jonathan Jacobs (ATCC)]
July 20th, 2023 - audio recording coming soon!
Panel Discussion: “Viral Measurement Challenges ” [Antonio Camargo (DOE JGI), Adrian Paskey (NMRC/BDRD), Simon Roux ( DOE JGI)]
October 19th, 2023 - recording available for IMMSA members
Sandra Da Silva - NIST- Gut Microbiome: Metabolomics Interlaboratory Study
2022
2022
Workshop
August 23-25th, 2022
First IMMSA workshop. Recording available
Webinars
January 20th, 2022 12pm EST - recording available for IMMSA members
Katrine Whiteson - UC Irvine - Looking into the unknowns
Updates on IMMSA Working Groups - Working Group Leadership Teams
April 21st, 2022, 12pm EDT - recording available for IMMSA members
Dr. Maryam Goudarzi - SCIEX - Bridging the gap between analytical and microbial science in microbiome research
October 20th, 2022 12pm EDT - recording available for IMMSA members
2022 IMMSA Workshop Summary
Samuel Forry -NIST- Data Preview The Mosaic Interlab Study
2021
2021
April 15th, 2021, 12pm EST - recording available for IMMSA members
Scott Jackson - NIST - IMMSA Re-Launch
Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh - DOE Joint Genome Institute
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
This website is intended to be a resource for all things related to microbiome multi-omic standards
Banner image- NIST mixed microbial consortia imaged by SEM.
Banner image- NIST mixed microbial consortia imaged by SEM.
Photo Credit: Heidi Leonard, PhD
Photo Credit: Heidi Leonard, PhD
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