In this issue of the Center for Microbiome Engineering and Data Analysis newsletter:

  • The cMEDA Microbiome Forum is set to launch in September.
  • A new grant from the CCTR Emerging Scholars was awarded to Ekaterina Smirnova with Arun Sanyal.
  • The Vaginal Microbiome Consortium publishes manuscripts in Nature Microbiology, Nature, and the Journal of Perinatology. More than 50 VCU investigators contributed to the research.