The Host-Microbe Core (HM) was developed to anticipate novel trends in the study of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and the needs of DDRCC investigators who wanted to understand the complex interactions between the host and gut microbes.
The core has two components:
Protocols from the Enteric Microbiology Component fro high-throughput analysis of microbial communities (16S rRNA-based], metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, and qPCR for relative bacterial load, sulfate-reducing organisms in a community, and butyrate producing organisms) are featured here.