Ravel Receives Prestigious International Science Award

Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Associate Director for IGS, has been named a 2015-2017 Blaise Pascal International Research Chair, one of the most prestigious European science awards. He is spending this year working at the Institut Pasteur in Paris....

NAMS Selects Dr. Brotman's Article for Best Paper Award

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) selected Dr. Brotman's article on "Association between the vaginal microbiota....."

NIH Announces Common Fund High Risk/High Reward Awards

IGS' Dr. Dunning Hotopp received a Transformative Research award from NIH.....

NEW RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT ON HOW POPULAR PROBIOTIC BENEFITS THE GUT

Study Suggests the Bacteria May Work By Lending a Hand to Other Microbes....

Staff Senate Adds Riham Keryakos

Riham is now representing IGS and SOM on the UMB Staff Senate

Malaria parasites unlikely to jump from animals to humans

A new study indicates that it is unlikely that Plasmodium species that infect other animals would cross over easily to humans....

Scientists Find Multiple Wolbachia Genomes Integrated in a Drosophila Chromosome

Investigators found multiple complete bacterial genomes integrated into an animal genome.....

Pregnancy Germs: Friend or Foe?

HOW THE MATERNAL MICROBIOME INFLUENCES PREGNANCY HEALTH

CHIB Launches New Network & Systems Biology Division

CHIB launched new division focusing on network and systems biology research. Systems biology is an emerging discipline that focuses on the complex interactions between genes, proteins, metabolism and the 3D structures...

Scientists Apply Successful Single Molecule Sequencing and de novo Genome Assembly to a Parasitic Worm that Infects Human Eyes and Skin

Investigators at IGS and the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the NIAID used the long-read, single-molecule Pacific Biosciences platform for the successful genome sequencing and de novo assembly of Loa loa roundworms...