use of antibiotics is a key piece of keeping your microbiome healthy,” says Jennifer Surtees, GEM co-director and associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Activities that will be held throughout the week include:

Microbial Aesthetics Symposium. The two-day event, hosted by the UB Coalesce Center for Biological Art, will gather practitioners from across the arts, humanities and sciences to discuss the aesthetics of engagement with microbial life, offering new vantages for study.

The symposium will be held Nov. 16-17 at the Coalesce Center for Biological Art in Hochstetter Hall and the Student Union on the North Campus, and at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

The interactive workshops and discussions are free and open to the public. Guestsare encouraged to RSVP at coe-gem@buffalo.edu by Nov. 13. More details are available online.

Panel Discussion: The Future of Antibiotics. Guests will learn about the potential fate of medicine from experts on the frontline of antibiotic resistance. The program is sponsored by GEM, the Erie County Department of Health and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Panelists include Erie County Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein; Joshua Sawyer, clinical assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Julie Smithson, clinical pharmacist at Sisters of Charity Hospital.

The event, free and open to the public, will take place at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in 125 Kapoor Hall, South Campus. Light refreshments will be served.

The Microbiome: Your 2nd Genome. The fall 2017 program of the Friends of the Health Sciences