Workshop IV: Microbiome Biobanking in a One Health Framework: Bridging Silos Across Domains

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This workshop will explore how microbiome biobanks and data repositories across human, animal, and environmental domains can collaborate to support a One Health approach to microbiome research. While microbiomes are inherently interconnected across these domains, research efforts, biobanks, and data repositories are often fragmented and poorly aligned. Participants will discuss practical issues such as interoperability, standards, governance, data sharing, and sustainability, including how samples and data can be maintained and reused after individual research projects end.

In addition, the workshop will present lessons learned and best practices emerging from the EU-funded MICROBE project, highlighting concrete challenges and gaps between the research community and research infrastructures. The discussion will focus on what currently works, what does not, and where better coordination between biobanks, data repositories, and researchers is needed to support long-term, integrated microbiome research in a One Health context.

Target Audience: This workshop is intended for microbiome researchers, staff in biobanks which manage or plan to manage microbiome-containing biospecimens, and data scientists handling microbiome data.

Maximum number of participants: 40