6–18 July 2026 | Bath, United Kingdom

MSE is back with another stellar lineup for the virtual seminar series, which will be hosted monthly through 2026. After each seminar, we will host an informal virtual social hour, in which attendees can chat with the speaker and MSE members about research, teaching, our pets, and more. Registration to the seminar and social hour is free, but required. New this year: the live session will be available free, but the on-demand video-recording will only be available to MSE members for the first year (and available to the public afterwards).

A large-scale literature review to which I contributed was recently published in Nature Medicine!! Led by Dr. Jack Gilbert, a team of microbiome experts put together this paper exploring how microbiome research has evolved in the last two decades from asking fundamental questions about which microbes were present, what they were doing, and how and when microbial communities would react, to creating diagnostic tools and clinical interventions to promote health.

This Review summarizes recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based interventions that are ripe for clinical adoption while also discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the field.

Events will be hosted January - December, 2025, on the last Wednesday of every month, 12:00 - 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting. Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine and the UMaine Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Committee.