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On May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the����(NMI) to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems. In attendance at the launch in Washington, D.C., were (left to right) David Mark Welch, director of ��������'s Bay Paul Center and associate director of��, a collaborative initiative of the ��������, the University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory; Eugene Chang, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago; Jack Gilbert, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago, faculty director of The Microbiome Center, and �������� Fellow; Zoe Cardon, senior scientist at the �������� Ecosystems Center and co-author of an��editorial��by NMI participants highlighting issues addressed by the initiative; and Erin Lane, executive director of The Microbiome Center.

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