Photo Credit: Health worker screening samples for blood parasites, in Rwanda. ©Global Microbiome Conservancy / Photo by C. Corzett
A Global Team of Researchers
The Global Microbiome Conservacy (GMbC) consortium is an independent network of accomplished researchers dedicated to expanding our understanding of the human microbiome and the practice of inclusive science.
Radically Expanding Our View of the Microbiome
Microbiome science has the potential to transform our understanding of human health but current research is narrowly focused on Western, industrialized populations. The GMbC consortium fills a crucial gap in knowledge and scientific leadership by collecting samples and data from underrepresented regions. To date, the consortium has collected and shared microbiome diversity derived from the stool samples of 1,200+ participants from over 30 previously unrepresented communities around the world.
Leadership and Operations
The Global Microbiome Conservancy is an academic research network led by Mathieu Groussin, PhD and Mathilde Poyet, PhD who run a joint laboratory at Kiel University. Groussin and Poyet also serve as co-chairs of the Scientific and Ethics Advisory Board (SEAB) of the GMbC program at OpenBiome.
GMbC consortium members collaborate to advance microbiome research capacity and knowledge while also indepdently pursuing their own academic activities including leading scientific studies and fundraising.
Collecting and Sharing Microbiome Diversity
The GMbC consortium has built an independent, globally representative collection of healthy human microbiome materials and data, with primary samples, bacterial isolates, and derivatives to enable functional and mechanistic research.
The GMbC Microbiome Collection
Photo Credit: GMbC team processing stool samples in an improvised laboratory by a Bedik village in southeastern Senegal. ©Global Microbiome Conservancy / Photo by F. Rondon
A Global Community of Scientists
The GMbC consortium is made up of the following researchers from:
Argentina
Ana Binetti
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe
Gabriel Vinderola
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe
Brazil
Ana Paula Schaan
Federal University of Para, Belem
Ă‚ndrea Ribeiro dos Santos
Federal University of Para, Belem
Cameroon
Vanessa Juimo
L’Institut de recherche pour le développement, Yaoundé
Alain Fezeu
L’Institut de recherche pour le développement, Yaoundé
Canada
Jesse Shapiro
University of Montreal, Montreal
Catherine Girard
University of Montreal, Montreal
Central African Republic
Ernest Lango-Yaya
Université de Bangui
Denmark
Ainara Sistiaga
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Ethiopia
Tamrat Abebe
Addis Ababa University School of Medicine, Addis Ababa
Finland
Jenni Lehtimäki
University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Tommi Vatanen
University of Helsinki, Helsinki
France
Laure SĂ©gurel
Musée de l’Homme, Paris
Alain Froment
Musée de l’Homme, Paris
Ghana
Yaw Asante Awuku
University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences, Cape Coast
Mary K Yeboah Afihene
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
Adwoa Agyei
School of Medicine and Dentistry College of Health Sciences, Accra
Indonesia
Nasrum Massi
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Hasanuddin University, Makassar
Agussalim Bukkari
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine Hasanuddin University, Makassar
Iraq
Khalid Ibrahim
Biology Department, Faculty of Science. University of Zakho
CĂ´te d'Ivoire
Souleymane Cisse
Centre de Ressources Biologiques Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire
Edwige Kouadio Ayebe
Centre de Ressources Biologiques Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire
Malaysia
Fatimah Ibrahim
Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Tan Maw Pin
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Yvonne Ai Lian Lim
Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Mali
Seydou Doumbia
University of Bamako, Bamako
Nepal
Dibesh Karmcharya
Center for Molecular Dynamics, Kathmandu
Nigeria
Charles Onyekwere
Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos
Pakistan
Muhammad Imran
Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad
Rwanda
John Rusine
National Reference Laboratory, Kigali
Ivan E Mwikarago
National Reference Laboratory, Kigali
Senegal
Awa Deme
Aristide Le Dantec Hospital, Dakar
Daouda Ndiaye
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
Aida Sadikh Badiane
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar
Sweden
Amelie Plymoth
Karolinska Institutet
Yvonne Nartey
Karolinska Institutet
Tanzania
Audax Mabulla
University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
Shani Mangola Msafir Sigwazi
Thailand
Ratha-korn Vilaichone
Thammasat University Hospital, Bangkok
Varocha Mahachai
Clulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Uganda
Joseph Ngonzi
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
United States
Sean Gibbons
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Christopher Corzett
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Roger Summons
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Lisa Bebell
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Mary Noel
Chief Dull Knife College, Lame Deer
Eric Alm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lewis Roberts
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Lee Soo Ching
National Institute of Health
Kenneth Valles
Mayo Clinic, Rochester