We had a thought-provoking two days last week at our “Profiling Environmental Exposures in Human Cohort Data” workshop at EMBL Heidelberg. Co-organised by Oliver Stegle (EMBL Heidelberg), Annette Peters (Helmholtz Munich) and Amy Foreman (EMBL-EBI), the workshop brought together experts across environmental epidemiology, exposomics, metabolomics, toxicology, fundamental biology, and genomics to discuss current efforts and future needs to capture environmental exposure impacts on human health.

Through a series of presentations and discussions, we explored a range of topics from DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated drug metabolism to identifying markers of disease including depression and cancer. The workshop was a great opportunity for knowledge exchange and sparked a number of collaborative opportunities going forward.

We are thankful to all our participants for their expertise and are very much looking forward to working together to strengthen efforts to protect human health.

With Roel Schins (Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine), Alexandra Schneider (Helmholtz Munich), Jana Klanova (RECETOX), Elliott J Price (RECETOX), Benedikt Warth (University of Vienna), Jonathan Martin (Stockholm University), Na Cai (Helmholtz Munich), Wolfgang Huber (EMBL Heidelberg), Ahmad Aziz (DZNE), Michael Zimmermann (EMBL Heidelberg), Kamil Moskal (DKFZ), Robert Barouki (University of Paris), Johan Øvrevik (Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Paolo Vineis (Imperial College London), Riccardo Marioni (University of Edinburgh), Josie Robertson (University of Edinburgh), Léa Maitre (ISGlobal), Ian Mudway (Imperial College London), Judith Zaugg (EMBL Heidelberg), Cornelius Gross (EMBL Rome), Anna Moles (CNR), Ting-Hao Kuo (EMBL Heidelberg), Nora Mastrorilli (EMBL Heidelberg), Richard Jacoby (EMBL Heidelberg), and Denise Selagato (EMBL Heidelberg).