Where Next for Microbiome Research?

• Matthew K. Waldor ,

  * E-mail: mwaldor@research.bwh.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Gene Tyson,

  Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics and Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• Elhanan Borenstein,

  Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Howard Ochman,

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Andrew Moeller,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• B. Brett Finlay,

  Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Heidi H. Kong,

  Affiliation Dermatology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jeffrey I. Gordon,

  Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Karen E. Nelson,

  Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Karim Dabbagh,

  Affiliation Second Genome, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Hamilton Smith

  Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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