Integrated Microbiome Platforms for Advancing Causation Testing and Translation (IMPACTT) is the pan-Canadian Microbiome Research Core funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Our aim is to harness the power of the microbiome to promote human health.The International Microbiome Centre (IMC) at the University of Calgary is a translational research centre, designed to investigate the microbiome of humans, plants, animals and the physical environment.