Emory Microbiome Research Center
An Emory-level Center
Missions
- To bring together Emory researchers working to define the mechanistic interactions between the microbiome and other systems that influence normal physiology and pathophysiology of diseases
- To promote omics-based platforms that identify microbial impediments to optimal health.
Objectives
- To address the gap in establishing “causation” in microbiome related research.
- To foster multidisciplinary collaborations among scientists in a variety of research disciplines, including, but not limited to immunology, epithelial pathobiology, metabolism, bioinformatics, genomics, and other '-omics' sciences.
- To promote research projects that define mechanistic interactions between the microbiome community structures and/or individual taxa that influence normal physiology and pathophysiology of diseases.
- To promote research that focuses on identifying the functional elements within microbes that elicit beneficial influences on the host.
- To identify the influence of microbiome community structure on outcomes of clinical therapy.
- To promote clinical research that identify microbial impediments to optimal health.
- To employ metabolomic approaches to identify microbial generated metabolites that contribute to host health and disease.
- To discover biomarkers of microbial origin as indicators of health status.
- To support approaches in bacterial-based clinical therapy for the rational manipulation of the microbiome as treatment for disease.
- To enhance awareness of germ-free, gnotobiotic and bioinformatics core resources within Emory University.
- To promote didactic activities by hosting monthly seminars and an annual symposium focused on functional microbiome themed research.