Science for everyone
Wellcome Connecting Science is the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s learning, training and engagement programme. We are funded by Wellcome and based on the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK.
Wellcome Connecting Science’s mission is to enable everyone to explore genomic science and its impact on research, health and society.
Events
Genomics Lite: What is the microbiome?
Join us for this online session where we speak to staff from the Wellcome Sanger Institute exploring the concept of the microbiome? What can we learn from this vast community of microorganisms that exist in our body and how some of these are positive but some can make people unwell.
19 June 2025
Online
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I am grateful to have had this unique opportunity to have my say on one of society’s most complex and significant issues.
Jury member, Citizens Jury project, 2022
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The team did a truly fantastic job, I was impressed by their energy and professionalism. Conference delegates said that this year's meeting would be impossible to beat!
Wellcome Connecting Science conference committee member, 2023
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Through participating in the Connecting Science Global Training programme, I have managed to forge important networks and collaborations that have proved critical to my own career progression.
Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams, Senior Research Fellow, University College London
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Grateful for conferences that use a hybrid format. Today I got to be at the Mutational Scanning Symposium where I just listened to an amazing keynote lecture.
Wellcome Connecting Science conference delegate, 2023