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.
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Awards and funding opportunities
The Microbiome Center awards funding for Pilot Projects in order to promote cross-faculty research initiatives in all aspects of microbiome research. These encourage collaborative proposals from Argonne, the MBL or the UChicago, and aspire to initiate new areas of research or education and increase competitiveness for extramural funding. Travel Awards support microbial research related exchange for our students and postdocs. The Beacon Project, inaugurated in 2022 aims to bring a signature project to define the Microbiome Center.
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
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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 mschechter@uchicago.edu to join the list
- Our meta'omics worksop in February covered metagenomics with an'vio and metabolomics with Agilent.
- Check back here for forthcoming workshops!