Abstract
This report details the outcome of the 1st Skin Microbiota Workshop, Boulder, CO, held on October 15th-16th 2012. The workshop was arranged to bring Department of Defense personnel together with experts in microbial ecology, human skin physiology and anatomy, and computational techniques for interrogating the microbiome to define research frontiers at the intersection of these important areas. The workshop outlined a series of questions and created several working groups to address those questions, specifically to promote interdisciplinary activity and potential future collaboration. The US Army provided generous grant support and the meeting was organized and hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. A primary forward vision of the meeting was the importance of understanding skin microbial communities to improve the health and stealth of US Army warfighters.
Highlights
The skin is the human body’s largest organ, playing a critical role as the body’s primary barrier against disease and desiccation [1]
The skin microbiota varies substantially from body site to body site [3], with “dry”, “sebaceous”, and “moist” sites being a particular driver of the microbiota [4] and a considerable degree of symmetry between the left and right sides of the body [5,6]
Skin microbiota are personal, providing the opportunity to identify the person from which the skin microbial community structure profile originates to a surprising extent, even marking out objects habitually used by a given individual
Summary
The skin is the human body’s largest organ, playing a critical role as the body’s primary barrier against disease and desiccation [1].
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