Sentences with phrase «how microbial populations»
He considers how the microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child may play a crucial role in regulating health.
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As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.
Compositional studies alone do not explain how the various microbial species interact, cooperate or compete to form, maintain or alter their populations.
«We have become increasingly aware of how crucially important a healthy gut microbial population is for a well - functioning immune system.
The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.
«By collecting information about microbial populations present in the sediments, we hope to gain information about how and when bacteria do that, and how bacteria couple subsurface carbon chemistry to uranium behavior.»
«There's tons of questions around just how this whole system might control microbial populations in the gut, which have increasingly been shown to be important in obesity and diabetes, and all sorts of human conditions.»
«Advances in genetic sequencing technologies now allow us to find patterns in large, diverse populations of microorganisms, see how they associate with specific individuals, and understand how they change over time in a way we couldn't just a few years ago,» said Knight, who leads the UC San Diego Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative.
In a recent study by Helmsley grantee the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, researchers identified how the intestinal microbial population of Crohn's disease patients differs from that of individuals free of inflammatory bowel disease.
Prof. Ghedin studies microbial and viral population structures, and how these impact host response to infection and emerging infectious diseases.