A recent study from the Chaudhari Lab explores the relationship between gut-dwelling bacteria and folate (vitamin B9).
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Undergrads Use Campus as Living Laboratory to Investigate Root Microbiomes
Undergraduate students lead a project to identify bacteria living in root ecosystems of two native grasses in Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Phages Mutated in Space Hint at Biomedical Benefits to Humans on Earth
Research from the Raman Lab hints at how space travel may impact bacteria and phages, including those in our guts.
Gut Reaction
In GROW, Snehal Chaudhari reveals how gastrointestinal microbes influence disease, a critical step toward developing better therapies.
Research in Brief: The What, Why, and How
Diversity is the key to survival for beneficial bacteria living in your gut. Now, scientists have new tools to explore this diversity.
Venturelli Receives 2023 Early Career Innovator Award
Ophelia Venturelli received the award in recognition of her work to elucidate the molecular and ecological design principles of microbial communities.
When Antibiotics Deplete Our Gut Microbiome, a Human Gut Pathogen Takes Advantage
A deleterious bacterial infection can take hold when the diverse community of bacteria in the gut microbiome are killed with antibiotics.
Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
New computer model accurately predicts behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.
A key control knob for microbiome metabolism
Researchers are uncovering the complex mechanisms by which human gut bacteria accomplish a variety of functions, from transforming compounds derived from food into nutrition for the host to producing molecules that impact human behavior and …
Computational design of microbial communities
Microbial communities are everywhere in the environment. The interactions among these complex networks of organisms shape the overall community function and metabolism, sometimes in unexpected ways. In a paper published May 31 in Nature Communications, …