Microbiome Research

Researchers in the Microbiology Department helped develop methods that launched the contemporary microbiome field. Penn researchers have been part of the Human Microbiome Project, the largest project in the history of microbiology.  Research on the human microbiome today has the goal of manipulating human-associated microbial communities to improving the health of patients.  Researchers in the Microbiology Department work closely with the PennCHOP Microbiome Program, which is separately funded and provides multiple core resources for Microbiome research.  A core facility for generating and studying gnotobiotic mice is run out of the Microbiology Department to support Microbiome research. The School of Veterinary Medicine also hosts the Center for Host-Microbial Interactions.

Microbiome Researchers include: 

• Michael Abt, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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• Daniel Beiting, PhD
  Associate Professor, Pathobiology
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• Kyle Bittinger, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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• Frederic Bushman, PhD
  Chair and Professor of Microbiology
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• Sara Cherry, PhD
  John W. Eckman Professor of Medical Science
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• Yongwon Choi, PhD
  Leonard Jarett Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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• Ronald Collman, MD
  Professor of Medicine
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• Kristin Gerson, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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• Elizabeth Grice, PhD
  The Sandra J. Lazarus Professor in Dermatology
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• Scott Hensley, PhD
  Professor of Microbiology
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• Christopher Hunter, PhD
  Professor of Pathobiology
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• Chengcheng Jin, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology
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• Brendan Kelly, MD
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
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• Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE
  Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases; Robert Austrian Professor
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• Maayan Levy, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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• Michela Locci, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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• Ahmed Moustafa, BPharm, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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• Paul Planet, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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• Joseph W St. Geme, MD
  Chair and Physician-in-Chief of Pediatrics, CHOP
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• Michael Silverman, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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• Christoph Thaiss, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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• Sarah Tishkoff, PhD
  Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology
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• Gary Wu, MD
  Weisbrod Professor of Gastroenterology
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• Joseph Zackular, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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