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  • Funded through an NIH R21 grant, NAU scientists combine PMI and Ecoss expertise to explore the role of gut microbiota in Alzheimer’s disease

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Funded through an NIH R21 grant, NAU scientists combine PMI and Ecoss expertise to explore the role of gut microbiota in Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by Heather Tate on April 1, 2022

Multidisciplinary team will apply quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP), a technology widely used in environmental microbiome sciences

Emily Cope working in the PMI lab

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 6.2 million Americans are living with this progressive neurologic disorder, and it is the sixth-leading… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU microbiome researcher receives $3.75 million grant to develop software aimed at advancing cancer research

Posted by Heather Tate on September 21, 2020

Greg Caporaso working at his computer in PMI labGreg Caporaso, director of the Center for Applied Microbiome Science, part of the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI) at Northern Arizona University, has been awarded a $3.75 million grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to build software capable of analyzing and archiving data focused on the interplay between the… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU’s Keim leads Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union to publish findings of study tracking strains of SARS-CoV-2 in state

Posted by Heather Tate on September 15, 2020

Initial findings reported by the Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union (ACGU) suggest that following Arizona’s first reported case of COVID-19 in late January, the state experienced no subsequent cases that went undetected and was COVID-free until at least 11 distinct incursions occurred between mid-February and early April.

The published results appear in the scientific journal mBio.

Faculty at Northern Arizona University (NAU), the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, University of Arizona (UArizona)… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU and Purdue experts apply microbiome research to agricultural science to help increase crop yield

Posted by Heather Tate on April 30, 2020

Greg Caporaso with his soil experimentThe global demand and consumption of agricultural crops is increasing at a rapid pace. According to the 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, global yield needs to increase at an average annual rate of 1.73 percent to sustainably produce food, feed, fiber and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050. In the US, however, agricultural productivity is struggling to… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU team awarded prestigious Chan Zuckerberg grant to build global community around bioinformatics software

Posted by Heather Tate on November 14, 2019

Greg Caporaso sitting in front of computer with screen showing Qiime2 imageEven as NAU associate professor Greg Caporaso and his team were putting the final touches on their QIIME 2™ paper, published earlier this year, he was already planning several major enhancements to this open source and free bioinformatics software that enables scientists to perform microbiome analysis… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU researchers seek microbial link between two common and costly respiratory diseases

Posted by Heather Tate on September 26, 2019

Microbiome image Asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS)—sinus inflammation that lasts for at least three months—are serious and costly diseases, and both are on the rise. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, CRS affects up to 16 percent of the U.S. adult population and eats up a staggering 5 percent of the country’s healthcare budget each year.… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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