Center for Mucosal & Microbiome Biology
The Center for Mucosal & Microbiome Biology specializes in the use of Multiomic Approaches to create a comprehensive picture of the complex interplay between the microbiome and human health. Multiomics is a new approach to biological analysis where data sets of different omics groups (transcriptome, metabolome, etc.) are combined to create a thorough biological analysis.
The applications for multiomics are vast, ranging from elucidating the nature of host-pathogen interactions to illuminating the mechanisms behind non-communicable diseases. By combining these various "omic" approaches, scientists can analyze complex biological data to determine novel associations between biological entities, identify important biomarkers and build elaborate markers of disease and physiology.
The Center utilizes & and will train faculty in the following areas of multiomics: