International Collaborations
ILRI
IGS is part of an international partnership to improve vaccinology in Africa, funded largely by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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IGS @ASM Visit our booth at ASM, #1044 for info on sequencing, informatics & more.
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IGS Training Workshops IGS has expanded our workshops in 'omics' technologies..
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Festival of Science The UM School of Medicine launched a new initiative celebrating the scope of scientific discoveries that impact human health -- the vision of Dr. E. Albert Reece, Dean of the School of Medicine.
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Genomics Resource Center The Genomics Resource Center (GRC) is a high-throughput laboratory and data analysis group supporting the scientific programs of IGS and its collaborators.
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CHIB The Center for Health-Related Informatics & BioImaging will apply advanced computing to the analysis of datasets at the molecular, genetic and cellular levels.
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Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to biological data.
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Human Genomics Discovering how proteins work is essential to understanding disease mechanisms.
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Infectious Diseases The tools to examine the complete genetic "roadmap" of pathogens.
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Current News
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July 2014
Human Microbiome Science Report Released
Nearly 250 experts were convened July 2013 for the "Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future" conference in Bethesda, Md., where scientists discussed current advances, challenges and opportunities for human microbiome research at the NIH. A report of the meeting is now available in the journal Microbiome... The meeting agenda, videos and slides are available at: http://www.genome.gov/27554404
June 2014
IGS Awarded $15.2M NIAID Grant on Infectious Disease Research
IGS has received a grant award of $15.2 million over five years from the NIAID to create a research center to apply genomic techniques to the study of pathogens and their hosts...
June 2014
How Gut Bacteria Make Us Fat and Thin
Scientific American article with interview of Dr. Fraser describing new research on obese and thin twins...
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Recent Publications
Semaphorin 5B is a repellent cue for sensory afferents projecting into the developing spinal cord., Development (Cambridge, England) 2014-04-09
Feasibility of self-collection of fecal specimens by randomly sampled women for health-related studies of the gut microbiome., BMC research notes 2014-04-01
Genome sequences of rhinovirus C isolates from wisconsin pediatric respiratory studies., Genome announcements 2014-03-27
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Twitter Feed
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Drs. Ravel & Wommack re: #microbiome research & big science collaborations http://t.co/5f7FEluL3x @BMC_seriesReport for Human #Microbiome Science: Vision for Future now available http://t.co/z5rTcynF5C @genome_gov & @BMC_series @MicrobiomeJGlycogen in vaginal fluids drives Lactobacillus colonization http://t.co/qRAwEy8loRHuman #microbiome science: fr @NIH 2013 mtg now in @MicrobiomeJ http://t.co/ndpyEhIRUF
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