Publications & Success Stories

The TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative is excited to announce the third round of Awardees for the Fall 2021 (Round 3) TUMI Pilot and Feasibility Grants. TUMI assembled a panel of over twenty reviewers to assess and select our 8 finalists. Below you will find brief summaries of each of the eight funded projects. TUMI looks forward to supporting this research over the coming months, and we are unbelievably excited by the creative microbiome research proposed across grounds. Stay tuned for microbiome research updates from each of these investigators!!

Did you know 1/4 of carbon derived from photosynthesis on Earth cycles through the ocean’s microbe network in minutes to days? We just learned this from the new National Science Foundation Science Technology Center! The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (c-COMP) will explore how this works with chemistry, biology, modeling, informatics and education research!

The TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative is excited to announce the second round of Awardees for the Spring 2021 (Round 2) TUMI Pilot and Feasibility Grants. Nine investigators submitted applications and TUMI assembled a panel of over twenty reviewers to assess and select our finalists. Below you will find brief summaries of each of the six funded projects. TUMI looks forward to supporting this research over the coming months, and we are unbelievably excited by the creative microbiome research proposed across grounds. Selecting only a handful to fund was not an easy task.

Microbiome Publications from UVA

(October 2019 - September 2020)

1. Gut microbiome communication with bone marrow regulates susceptibility to amebiasis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. May 2020. Stacey L. Burgess, Jhansi L. Leslie, Md. Jashim Uddin, David Noah Oakland, Carol A. Gilchrist, G. Brett Moreau, Koji Watanabe, Mahmoud M. Saleh, Morgan Simpson, Brandon A. Thompson, David T. Auble, Stephen D. Turner, Natasa Giallourou, Jonathan Swann, Zhen Pu, Jennie Z. Ma, Rashidul Haque, and William A. Petri, Jr.

The TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative is thrilled to announce the Awardees of our first round of TUMI Pilot and Feasibility Grants. Nineteen investigators submitted applications and TUMI assembled a panel of over twenty reviewers to assess and select our finalists. Below you will find brief summaries of each of the funded projects. TUMI looks forward to supporting this research over the coming months, and we are unbelievably excited by the creative microbiome research proposed across grounds. Selecting only a handful to fund was not an easy task.

Earlier this month, we received news that our co-director, William Petri Ph.D. (ID&IH), and a team of researchers here at UVA have been awarded an NIH R01 (R01 AI152477-01A1) grant. The team will study the mechanisms by which specific parts of our immune system control the our response to C. difficile infection. 

The TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative is hiring for multiple data science/bioinformatician positions. The first two are posted through the Department of Pediatrics, see links below! Additional positions will be posted through the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and International Health.

Please reach out to Casandra Hoffman (clh4he@virginia.edu) with any additional questions. 

The School of Medicine Research Retreat was an amazing opportunity to learn about the research going on at the University of Virginia and to build research connections with SOM faculty.