DIVISION NEWS
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The Massachusetts Lab for Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning for the Microbiome
Through a $3.3M grant from the Massachusetts Life Science Center and in-kind support from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham, the BWH Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center (MHMC) and Division of Computational Pathology will establish a new lab to develop and apply advanced AI/deep learning technologies to microbiome research. Dr. Georg Gerber, Chief of BWH […]
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Gerber lab study showing gut metabolites predict C. diff recurrence
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the most common hospital acquired infection in the USA, with recurrence rates > 15%. Although primary CDI has been extensively linked to gut microbial dysbiosis, less is known about the factors that promote or mitigate recurrence. Using broad metabolomics data and statistics and machine learning models, Jen Dawkins, a HST PhD […]
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Gibson Lab receives $2.2 Million NIH R35 grant “Machine Learning and Control Principles for Computational Biology “
Grant Abstract: With our increasing ability to measure biological data at scale and the digitalization of health records, computational thinking is becoming ever more important in the biological science and healthcare. The research directions proposed in this grant look to build robust machine learning models and tools for computational biology by including principles and analysis […]
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Gibson Lab receives $450K NIH R21 grant “Tracking the microbiome: purpose-built machine learning tools for tracking microbial strains over time”
Grant Abstract: Approximately 150 million people annually experience urinary tract infections (UTI), the most common cause of which is uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). The gut is a known reservoir of UPEC, which typically reside at low abundance, but can transcend the periurethral area to invade the bladder. While the E. coli population within the gut […]
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$2.9M grant from the National Science Foundation “The rules of microbiota colonization of the mammalian gut”
The Gerber lab in collaboration with the Wang lab at Columbia and the Gibson Lab at BWH have received a $2.9M grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and apply novel computational and experimental methods to elucidate fundamental rules governing the formation and maintenance of complex microbial ecosystems in the mammalian gut. Abstract: Microbiomes, or the […]