Oral Microbial Communities: Genomic Inquiry and Interspecies Communication

Understand how the intricacies of multispecies community life are related to human oral health.

• Explores the immense opportunities presented by readily accessible, genetically tractable, genome-sequenced oral species that naturally form multispecies communities.
• Highlights model systems that study oral bacterial interactions, including biofilm growth using saliva as the source of nutrition.
• Emphasizes the use of genomic inquiry to probe the human oral microbiome.