Discovering the role of microbiomes across environments
Who we are
UChicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory - Collaborating to explore the power of microbes across environments.
Affiliated Institutions
Bacterial isolates from Arabidopsis. (Keven Dooley)
Awards and funding opportunities
- The 2019 Pilot Funds have been awarded and are here
Pristina leidyi gut microbiota. Beta-proteobacteria are stained with cyan in the digestive tract of the animal (between dotted lines). (Jessica Mark Welch and B. Duygu Özpolat, MBL)
Expertise across environments in microbiome research
- Sequencing at Argonne National Labs
- Imaging at the Marine Biological Laboratory
- Core facilities at the University of Chicago
- Research computing at the University of Chicago
Microbial Diversity Class of 2019 (Courtesy of MBL)
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Training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists
- MBL courses offer college students a perspective on microbiome research
- U of C graduate students have a journal club discussing newly-published papers in microbiome science. Email keven@uchicago.edu to join the list
- Our early career symposium last April brought together local expertise
- Check back here for a 2020 faculty workshop