Save the Date: Post-Graduate Course at ATS 2023

The American Thoracic Society has again agreed to host “A Hands-On Introduction to Studying the Lung Microbiome,” a recurring one-day Post-Graduate Course chaired by Robert Dickson along with Alexa Pragman and Leo Segal.

The course will be held in Washington D.C. on Saturday, May 20, one day before the start of the 2023 American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Topics covered will include:

  • An introduction to thinking about the microbiome

  • Contaminomics

  • Integrating microbiome findings with our disease models

  • Longitudinal microbiome studies

  • Studying viruses and fungi in lung microbiome studies

  • A hands-on introduction to microbiome analysis

  • Microbial-host interactions

  • Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

  • Analytics for integrative microbiome studies

  • Integrative, therapeutic, and environmental applications in microbiome studies

Additional details (speakers, registration information) will follow.

Robert Dickson