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Scientific Advisory Committee Kristina Campbell
Principal at KC Microbiome Communications Group, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Science and medical writer covering the microbiome field for online and print media; contributing editor at Microbiome Times. Consultant for bringing microbiome science into governmental policy, educational initiatives, and product development. Author of The Well-Fed Microbiome (Rockridge Press, 2016) and co-author of the textbook Gut Microbiota: Interactive Effects on Nutrition and Health (Elsevier, 2018).
Geoffrey Hannigan
Computational Biology, Merck Exploratory Science Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Experienced computational biologist in systems biology research group, with a strong background in both molecular and computational techniques, and a demonstrated history of microbiome research. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in translational research and the human microbiome from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
H. Bjorn Nielsen.
Chief Scientific Officer at Clinical-Microbiomics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Clinical-Microbiomics A/S, bioinformatician and longtime researcher in the microbiome field. For more than a decade he has been a frontrunner in microbiome research and has published a
series of method and bio-medical papers in the field. Moreover, Bjorn has a decade of project leading experience and a leader education from Harvard Business School.
Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe
Canada Research Chair in Applied Microbial Ecology and Assistant Professor at the Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Microbial ecologist using bioinformatics, statistics, and ecology to study host-microbe interactions on plants and in the human gut, with a lab at the Universite de Sherbrooke focusing on plant-microbe interactions on plant host Acer saccharum (sugar maple) and Malus domestica (common apple tree). Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary in the Arrieta Lab, working on the early-life influence of the gut microbiome on the development of the human immune system and its influence on allergies and asthma.