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! 

April 20th, 2023 - 12PM-1PM ET Join here!

Panel Discussion: “Opportunities and challenges in the development and use of microbial reference materials” 

Participants: 

Robert Schlaberg, MD, PhD, MPH - Distinguished Scientist, Infectious Disease and VP @ Illumina

Hena Ramay, PhD - Lead Data Scientist @ International Microbiome Centre, Calgary

Ishi Keenum, PhD - Postdoctoral fellow @ NIST

Jonathan Jacobs, PhD - Sr Director @ ATCC’s Sequencing & Bioinformatics Center

July 20th, 2023 

October 19th, 2023