The immediate effects of climate change on ecology and the environment has significant downstream consequences to human health, agriculture, global security, infrastructure, biodiversity, and many other sectors. Research across many scientific disciplines and fields have developed various tools to help mitigate climate change and enhance climate change resiliency.

The National Academies’ Board on Life Sciences is pleased to present a discussion on scientific questions that these technologies are being used to explore, with an emphasis on applications related to ecological and environmental sustainability and climate change. Speakers will explore emerging multi-omics capabilities, focusing on the following topics:

• The landscape of multi-omics tools and technologies and how these tools have been applied in various environmental biotechnology applications, including a discussion of specific use-cases related to microbial ecology, environmental engineering and sustainability, and climate-related issues.
• Identification of how emerging multi-omics capabilities that could have the highest impact, and discuss barriers to success including if these barriers are specific to environmental biotechnology research.
• Role that the life science community can play in analyzing and addressing the consequences of climate change.

Featured Speakers:

Christopher Henry, Argonne National Laboratory

George Wells, Northwestern University

Malak Tfaily, University of Arizona

Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside