Sentences with phrase «for microbiome research»

Microbiome Helper: a Custom and Streamlined Workflow for Microbiome Research — André M. Comeau — mSystems — January 2017

The UMI will provide oversight and guidance about how federal agencies, private foundations and commercial entities should direct funding for microbiome research.

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As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

Edwardson will conduct research primarily in Shedd Aquarium's Microbial Ecology Lab, the headquarters for the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project.

Shedd Aquarium's Microbiome Project is ideal for this research since it's the world's first comprehensive look at microbiomes in a controlled aquarium ecosystem.

Stay tuned for a future interview by Anne, with some of the research scientists attempting to supplement the microbiome of infants delivered by planned Cesareans.

Emerging research shows that bacteria are absolutely vital for human health, and science has linked an imbalance in the human microbiome with multiple chronic non-transmissible diseases.

For instance, recent research strongly suggests that in modern urban populations, the human microbiome has undergone major changes since the Industrial Revolution.

This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.

This is a highly limiting factor for research, because it complicates the annotation of data obtained by molecular techniques, and because it has been shown that gut microbiomes are to some extent specific to their host, and researchers have been using strains of other origin in mouse models.

The newfound role of the soil microbiome — the collection of microscopic bacteria, fungi and archaea that interact with plant roots — represents a turning point for research aimed at understanding and predicting where important tree species will reside in the future.

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

(See here for more on the reach of microbiome research these days.)

Such fundamental research while still in its early stages may pave the way for novel therapeutic strategies in time as the microbiome is far more manipulable than our genome.

«The fact that the virome has been overlooked for 10 years is the elephant in the room in microbiome research,» says Dutilh.

Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Research on microbiome links to obesity, for instance, suggests that a new «skinny» microbiome has to be accompanied by a switch to a diet lower in fat and calories, or else the new microbes will just be outcompeted.

Thackray says additional research is needed to determine whether specific gut bacterial species contribute to the development of PCOS and whether the microbiome offers potential pathways for treating the condition.

In the end, this research could lead to new strategies for manipulating the microbiome to improve intestinal health and decrease age - associated inflammation.

«Many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool samples are also present in food or in the mouth,» said lead study author Thomas A. Auchtung, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

«Based on our research, we identified more than a dozen microbes with known links to health that are heritable,» says Ley, also director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.

Determining exactly who has or is at risk for the disease is a critical unmet medical need,» said first author Rohit Loomba, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, director of the NAFLD Research Center and a faculty member in the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.

Although amplicon has been the traditional workhorse for studies on microbial life, the spike in human microbiome research inspired many scientists to switch to shotgun, which is cheaper and generates more genetic information.

Tags: animal research, bacteriology, biosciences, chemistry, food, microbiome, School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

In recent years, there's been a boom in research on the human microbiome, the universe of microbes that live on and within our bodies, as scientists uncover its importance for our health.

So the findings of our research are quite hopeful; they suggest that our microbiome could be a powerful means for improving our health.»

Part of the NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research, the Human Microbiome Project will award a total of $ 115 million to researchers over the next five years.

Washington, D.C. — May 13, 2016 — In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbMicrobiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbmicrobiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbMicrobiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

With Helmsley funding, CCFA's research consortium is now looking to identify potential therapies for development by pharmaceutical companies while also conducting a rigorous investigation of the effect of diet on the microbiome and how that might allow patients to alter the course of their illness without taking medications.

The UMIC is calling for investments in new research tools and cross-disciplinary collaborations that will one day allow us to predict and manage the behavior of microbiomes.

Other investigators on this study were Caitlin E. Millett, graduate student, psychiatry and neural and behavioral sciences; Dahlia Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow, and Aubrey Reider, research assistant, in the Department of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University of South Florida, School of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasresearch assistant, in the Department of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University of South Florida, School of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasResearch, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasResearch and Education, MVM — Core.

OpenBiome was founded to expand safe access to fecal transplantation for patients with recurrent C. difficile infection and to catalyze research on the role of the microbiome in human health.

Ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

«Microbiome research is a high priority for ASM and the result of this challenge could help develop groundbreaking tools to accelerate and enhance our knowledge of microbiomes.»

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

The Human Microbiome Project offers an opportunity to transform our understanding of the relationships between microbes and humans in health and disease,» said Dr. Alan Krensky, the director of the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI), which oversees the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRB) today announced that new preclinical data supporting the development of microbiome therapeutics for immuno - oncology (leveraging gut microbiota to impact tumor immunotherapy) 1 will be presented today by Sceneay et al in the late breaking poster session at the 2018 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR) in Chicago.

In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbMicrobiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbmicrobiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbMicrobiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

Ideally, ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the Earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

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About OpenBiome OpenBiome is the first public stool bank, founded to expand safe access to fecal transplantation for patients with recurrent C. difficile infection and to catalyze research on the microbiome's role in human health.

The group of scientists who issued the call for a «Unified Microbiome Project» proposed a large - scale, public and private initiative to advance the science of microbiomes through the development of new research tools and interdisciplinary collaborations.

PrePrint: American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen - Science Microbiome Research — Daniel McDonald — bioRxiv

That's why The Kavli Foundation has asked the American Society for Microbiology, in conjunction with the American Chemical Society and American Physical Society, to select the most promising, interdisciplinary groups working on tools that could help microbiome research.

As pressure mounts for farmers to grow enough healthy crops to meet a burgeoning population's needs, and for new land management strategies that improve soil carbon storage to reduce atmospheric CO2 and produce healthy soils, the soil microbiome is the subject of more in - depth scientific research than ever before.

Microbiome research is even important for space exploration and planetary science.

At PNNL, she leads research into the microbiome, a term for the collective communities of microbes that reside in many environmental niches, including the human gut and soil.

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