We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Microbiome and Barrier Immunity which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 25, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, October 29, 2027.

The conference will include seven oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Microbiome and Barrier Immunity. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Barrier surface: skin, lung, gut, BBB

2. Microbiome & tumor

3. Molecular mechanisms of host & microbe cross-talks

4. Infection

5. Neuron-immune barrier

Keynote Speaker:

Kate Fitzgerald, The University of Massachusetts Medical School

Jonathan Kagan, Harvard Univerisity

Invited Speakers:

Ken Cadwell, University of Pennsylvania

Isaac Chiu, Harvard Medical School

Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg, University of Bern

Nicola Harris, Monash University

Sumaira Hasnain, Mater Research Institute-UQ

Xiaoyu Hu, Westlake University

Iliyan Iliev, Weill Cornell Medicine

Hye Young Kim, Korea University

Lisa Mielke, The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute

Scott  Mueller, The University of Melbourne

Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University in St. Louis

Tiffany Scharschmidt, University of California, San Francisco

Cyril Seillet, University of Monash

Kiyoshi Takeda, Osaka University

Nan Tang, National Institute of Biological Sciences(NIBS)

Eduardo Villablanca, Karolinska Institutet

Di Wang, Zhejiang University

Yating Wang, Tsinghua University

Christoph Wilhelm, Kindernotfallzentrum Bonn

Chuan Wu, National Institutes of Health

Jingyuan Yang-Fu, University of Groningen

Omer Yilmaz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October 2027.