Symbiosis Across Scales: Host-Microbe Interactions in Changing Ecological Context

For the fourth time in a row, the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Animal-Microbe Symbioses will feature a preceding Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). This event brings together international graduate and post-doctoral researchers to share and discuss cutting-edge symbiosis research through talks and posters. This engagement promotes collaborations, inspires new research directions, and nurtures professional networks with peers and mentors before the start of the larger GRC. We strongly encourage participants to also attend the associated GRC immediately following the seminar.

Symbioses form the foundation of countless habitats worldwide. These nested ecosystems produce inter-partner feedback and cascades that can profoundly affect the broader community outside a host, yet we are only beginning to understand the functional mechanisms of many critical symbioses. Key questions include: How do mutualistic partners co-regulate in symbiosis? How do close associations affect the evolutionary trajectories of animals and their microbes? How do changing external environments affect host-microbiota interactions? We encourage contributions from diverse areas of research on Animal-Microbe Symbiosis to address these and other pressing questions together.