Research

Campus Research Resources

• The Carver Biotechnology Center offers a suite of tools for microbial researchers
• Core Facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology include microscopy capabilities and computing infrastructure
• HPCBio, high-performance computing resources for biological data management and analysis
• The Rodent Gnotobiotic Facility offers animal models
• BioCyc, a web portal for microbial genomes and metabolic pathways, is now available without access limits to all users with a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IP address

The National Landscape

• Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research
• The American Society for Microbiology
• The International Society for Microbial Ecology
• White paper on Microbial anti-cancer therapy and prevention

Recent Publications

02.25.2026 Deployment of a Vibrio cholerae ordered transposon mutant library in a quorum-competent genetic background

02.07.2026 Genetic toolbox development for engineering Bacteroides and other bacterial species

01.21.2026 Therapeutic drug monitoring of itraconazole in treatment of blastomycosis in dogs

01.20.2026 Exploiting the endogenous type II-A CRISPR-Cas system for functional engineering of probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG

01.19.2026 SARS-CoV-2 wastewater genomic surveillance: approaches, challenges, and opportunities

01.16.2026 A tunable microbial factory for rare sugar coproduction

01.14.2026 Modeling multidrug resistance in Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni isolated from swine at U.S. slaughter plants

01.09.2026 High yield production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid using Issatchenkia orientalis