This international event will take place in Madrid (Spain) from 24th to 26th of February 2013

and will be organized with the support of Danone.

• Exploring Human Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease: 8-10 May 2012

Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

• International Human Microbiome Standards (IHMS) meeting: 22 Mrach 2012 - Palais Brongniart, Paris
• International Human Microbiome Congress organized by MetaHIT: 19-21 March, 2012 - Palais Brongniart, Paris

http://www.metahit.eu/paris2012

Human Microbiome research has brought together scientists from all around the world to discuss new findings, their impacts and the future trends at the International Human Microbiome Congress.

This event has unified the two main Human Microbiome Consortiums: the Human Microbiome Project (USA, NIH initiative) and MetaHIT (European initiave) and also scientists from China, Japon and Canada. Dr. Francisco Guarner (from the Digestive unit of the VHRI, Barcelona, Spain) who belongs to the MetaHIT consortium, presented the last findings on the association between human microbiome and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).