Making gut microbiomes from scratch

Shuchang Tian; Jordan E Bisanz

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2022.10.005

Making gut microbiomes from scratch

Cell Host Microbe. 2022 Nov 9;30(11):1508-1509. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.10.005.

Authors

Shuchang Tian¹, Jordan E Bisanz²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; The Penn State Microbiome Center, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Electronic address: jordan.bisanz@psu.edu.

PMID: 36356566
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.10.005

Abstract

Studying the microbiome presents a challenge: how do we untangle the interactions of microbes at ecologically relevant scales? We highlight research by Afrizal et al. and Cheng et al., which help to solve this problem through the generation and characterization of complex synthetic communities derived from lab-grown microbes.

MeSH terms

Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Microbiota*

Grants and funding

R00 AI147165/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States