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The Gut Microbiome’s Supersized Role In Shaping Our Metabolome

Posted on November 10, 2022

ISB researchers have shown which blood metabolites are associated with the gut microbiome, genetics, or the interplay between both. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Metabolism, have promising implications for guiding targeted therapies designed to alter the composition of the blood metabolome to improve human health.

Dr. Christian Diener, postdoc in ISB's Gibbons Lab.

New Modeling Tool Allows Microbiome Researchers to Map Community Ecology to Ecosystem Function

Posted on January 21, 2020

A promising new open-source metabolic modeling tool provides microbiome researchers a path forward in predicting ecosystem function from community structure. News of the software package, called MICOM, was developed in part by researchers in ISB’s Gibbons Lab, and its uses were published in the journal mSystems.

Using Blood to Predict Gut Microbiome Diversity

Posted on September 2, 2019

Predicting the alpha diversity of an individual’s gut microbiome is possible by examining metabolites in the blood. The robust relationship between host metabolome and gut microbiome diversity opens the door for a fast, cheap and reliable blood test to identify individuals with low gut diversity.

The Gut Microbiome’s Supersized Role In Shaping Our Metabolome

at the Institute for Systems Biology

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The Gut Microbiome’s Supersized Role In Shaping Our Metabolome

New Modeling Tool Allows Microbiome Researchers to Map Community Ecology to Ecosystem Function

Using Blood to Predict Gut Microbiome Diversity

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