Table 1 Summary of presented research
From: Meeting report of the fourth annual Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium symposium
Organization | Microbiome area | Topic |
|---|---|---|
DoD laboratories | ||
Air Force | ||
AFRL | Health and performance | Exploring changes in the host gut microbiota during a controlled human infection model for Campylobacter jejuni |
AFRL | Environmental | Microbiomes of military aircraft and vehicles and their connection to biocorrosion and biodeterioration |
USAFA | Environmental | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-degrading microorganism mining |
Army | ||
DEVCOM ARL | Analysis and discovery | Metagenomics and genome-scale metabolic modeling of microbes sampled from corroded Army equipment |
DEVCOM SC | Enabling technologies | In vitro fermentation as a complement to human studies to explore gut microbial composition and metabolic capacity* |
ERDC-CRREL | Enabling technologies | Growing the dark web: melanized fungal structures as a biological wire |
ERDC-CRREL | Environmental | Determination of the ecological process structuring microbial communities during permafrost that using a phylogenetic null modeling approach |
ERDC-CRREL | Environmental | DRTSPORE: a model that predicts soil activity across the landscape* |
ERDC-CRREL | Environmental | Changes in permafrost microbial community composition after thaw* |
ERDC-CRREL | Environmental | Cataloguing psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria* |
ERDC-CRREL | Environmental | UV-resistant psychrotolerant microorganisms: understanding the role of pigmentation for survival* |
WRAIR | Health and performance | Longitudinal shift in fecal microbiota associated with acute and delayed effects of PTSD-eliciting stress model |
WRAIR | Health and performance | Impact of radiation dose and temporal delay on host-biome relationships and fecal metagenomics* |
Navy | ||
NRL | Analysis and discovery | Multiomic analysis of the gut microbiome of US Navy divers |
NRL | Environmental | Compositional variability and biodegradative potential of the plastisphere in aquatic environments* |
Government laboratories | ||
LANL | Enabling technologies | Utilizing single cell genomics and gel microdroplets to advance public health, environmental impact, and security |
MIT-LL | Enabling technologies | A generalizable method for engineering non-model microbes |
USDA-ARS | Enabling technologies | The in vitro human gut microbiome system* |
US EPA | Environmental | EPA activities related to indoor microbiome and human health* |
VA-Rocky Mountain MIRECC | Health and performance | Evaluation of an immunomodulatory probiotic intervention for veterans with co-occurring mild TBI and PTSD: a pilot study* |
Academia | ||
Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Health and performance | Bone loss with aging is independent of age-related gut microbiome dysbiosis in mice |
MIT | Enabling technologies | Mining the chemical signals human-associated bacteria use to control their host$ |
UCSD | Analysis and discovery | Metabolomics tools to study the molecular impact of the microbiome$ |
UMASS-Amherst | Environmental | Soil microbial adaptation to chronic soil warming$ |
Weizmann Institute of Science | Health and performance | Host-microbiome interactions in health and disease$ |
Industry | ||
DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences | Analysis and discovery | Comparative microbiome study in lean vs. obese population: discovery of novel probiotics for metabolic health |