Microbiome Research

The Possibilities

Researchers can study the microbiomes of healthy and premature babies to work toward providing every baby a healthy microbiome at the start of life
Environmental scientists can learn more about healthy soils and oceans to better predict how ecosystems will respond to climate change.
Scientists at the UC Irvine MIND Institute can unravel the complex links between digestive health and debilitating neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s.

The Challenges: What do we need to know?

Research News

UC Irvine Microbiome researchers well represented at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland

August 11, 2017

UC Irvine Microbiome researchers well represented at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland (Aug 6-11, 2017) Allison led a session comparing plant…

Two graduate students focused on microbiome research received awards at the UC Irvine Bio Sci Graduate Honors Convocation

June 14, 2017

Two graduate students focused on microbiome research, Michaeline Nelson and Stephen Wandro, received awards at the UC Irvine Bio Sci Graduate Honors Convocation on June…

A team led by a graduate student in the Whiteson lab, Stephen Wandro, recently posted an analysis of preterm infant microbiomes from the Children’s Hospital in Orange County

April 10, 2017

Microbial Community Assembly And Metabolite Profile Of The Gut Microbiome In Extremely Low Birthweight Infants