Brown Bag Lunch: Specific Phocaeicola vulgatus strains link dysbiosis of gut microbiota to the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal nerve cell damage and impaired motility in type 2 diabetes

In this work-in-progress, Dr. Fehrenkamp will present an IMCI-funded pilot in which she is recruiting ~30 breastfeeding mother–infant dyads for an intensive 24-hour protocol to quantify cortisol and melatonin dynamics across the maternal–milk–infant triad. Each dyad completes up to 10 repeated collections of maternal saliva, breast milk, and infant saliva over two days, along with…

Session led by Tanya Miura Our initial project on the CMCI COBRE award was designed to identify parameters that determine disease outcomes during respiratory viral coinfection in a mouse model. Through this work we identified multiple virus pairs that resulted in reduced disease severity upon coinfection, which depends upon the viral doses and order of…