Stacey Burgess Funded to Study Microbiome-Immune Connections | TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative (TUMI)

(A) Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) of Bray- 216 Curtis dissimilarities (beta-diversity) of fecal microbiota from surveillance reference stool or E. 217 histolytica infected children. The groups are significantly different by PERMANOVA. (B) 218 Relative abundance of the genus Lachnoclostridium from samples described in A. The groups 219 are significantly different by Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction.

Stacey Burgess, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health was just awarded an R01 to study mechanisms by which microbiota protect against infection (R01 R01AI146257: “Gut microbiome communication with the bone marrow regulates intestinal inflammation”). Using data generated in TUMI’s Gnotobiotic Germ-Free Animal Core, she put together a competitive application and was notified of her success in mid-January! Feel free to reach out to her if you have questions about her experience with the Gnotobiotic Facility! You can read the preprint of her most recent work here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/487652v2.

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/487652v2