Seminar series
PAMS sponsors, both in conjunction with individual departments at Purdue and on its own, a series of guest seminar speakers every semester.
Coming soon! Check back for a schedule of seminars upcoming in the Spring 2024 semester!
Annual Symposium
The 2024 Midwest Microbiome Symposium will take place at Purdue’s Beck Center May 13-15. Visit the Symposium homepage for more information or to register!
2022: After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, we got back in stride with another very successful event in the spring of 2022. Check back soon for videos from the 2022 Symposium!
2019: The first PAMS Microbiome Symposium was held in May of 2019 at Purdue’s Beck Center. Over the course of two days, 230 attendees, representing Purdue and 18 other colleges and universities (from as far away as Colombia), as well as corporate entities, government researchers and NGO’s, came together to hear six world-renowned keynote speakers and a range of other talks. An evening poster session brought together roughly 50 presenters. Our corporate sponsors at this event had the opportunity to set up informational tables/booths for the duration of the program, market their products/services, and make numerous new connections within this community. Some video highlights from the 2019 Symposium are available below:
- Laramy Enders – “Exploiting microbiomes for management of crop pests: Lessons from aphids and their symbionts”
- Mohit Verma – “Engineering the gut microbiome using physical-organic chemistry”
- Steve Lindemann – “Bran fiber structure controls composition and metabolism of human gut microbiota”
- Seth Bordenstein – “What do a great pandemic and vector control have in common?”
- Vanessa Hale – “Characterizing the gut microbiota of farmed and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in relation to Chronic Wasting Disease”
- Tim Johnson – “Agricultural antibiotic use alters the composition and function of the gut microbiome in turkeys”