Title: The dynamics of human vaginal communities: windows of risk to disease 

Speaker: Prof. Larry J. Forney (Director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho)

Time: September 21 2015, Monday, 2:30pm

Venue: KIZ main building, second floor, conference room 237

Everyone is welcome!

Representative publications:

　　·  Huttenhower C, Knight R, Brown CT, Caporaso JG, Clemente JC, Gevers D, et al. (2014). Advancing the microbiome research community. Cell, 159(2), 227–230. PMC4221798. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.022 

　　·  Human Microbiome Project Consortium. (2012)  Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome. Nature, 486(7402):207–214. PMC3564958. doi:10.1038/nature11234. 

　　·  Human Microbiome Project Consortium. (2012) A framework for human microbiome research. Nature, 486(7402):215–221. PMC3377744. doi:10.1038/nature11209. 

　　·  Gajer P, Brotman RM, Bail G, Sakamoto J, Shutte UME, Zhong X, Koenig SS, Fu L, Ma Z, Zhou X, Abdo Z, Forney LJ, Ravel J. (2012) Temporal dynamics of the human vaginal microbiota. Sci. Transl. Med. 4(132):132ra52. PMC3722878. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3003605. 

　　·  Ravel J, P Gajer, Z Abdo, GM Schneider, SS Koenig, SL McCulle, S Karlebach, et al. (2011). Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108 Suppl 1, 4680–4687. PMID: 20534435. 

　　·  Sota M, H Yano, J Hughes, GW Daughdrill, Z Abdo, LJ Forney, and EM Top. (2010). Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein. ISME J. 4(12):1568-1580. PMID: 20510653.