We received the announcement today that the MoBE 2017 Symposium, chaired by Lynn Schriml at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in the Microbiology of the Built Environment. MoBE 2017 will be co-sponsored by and held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., October 10-12th, 2017. MoBE 2017 will be an historic event, bringing together and engaging leading academic and government researchers with community stakeholders to examine and discuss MoBE program findings pertinent to human health, safe drinking water, healthy built environments and urban design. Join us as we outline the exciting future of the MoBE research field launched by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.