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.
Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars!
October 20th, 2022 12pm EDT - Click here to join
2022 IMMSA Workshop Summary
Samuel Forry -NIST- Data Preview The Mosaic Interlab Study
January 19th, 2023
April 20th, 2023
July 20th, 2023
October 19th, 2023
past WebinarS and workshops
2022
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
August 23-25th, 2022
First IMMSA workshop. Recording available
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 microbial, microbiome, and metagenomic standards
Banner image- NIST mixed microbial consortia imaged by SEM.
Photo Credit: Heidi Leonard, PhD