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The Infection Genomics for One Health theme works to describe microbial communities and their genes across different natural and man-made environments.

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Illinois pathobiology professor Csaba Varga and his colleagues tracked antibiotic-resistant infections with Campylobacter jejuni, a primary cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. The study found regional and age-related differences, and an upward trend in resistance to a class of antibiotics known as quinolones. Photo by Craig Pessman
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Team finds regional, age-related trends in exposure to drug-resistant pathogen
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Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Yuqing Mao and Professor Helen Nguyen developed a new method for detecting antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater.
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Researchers develop enhanced method for wastewater surveillance of antibiotic resistance
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Spatial transcriptomics data from osteosarcoma cells. Left) A spatial map of the transcriptome segmented into individual cells using machine learning, with each dot representing a RNA transcript and each color indicating a different gene. Right) Genes associated with cytoskeleton and robunucleoprotein complexes are frequently colocalized.
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IGB researchers leverage team science to develop InSTAnT Toolkit
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Anubhav Basu, left, graduate student and first author of the paper with Professor of Microbiology Cari Vanderpool
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Gut microbiome research sheds light on oligosaccharide breakdown, prebiotics
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The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study co-author Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. Photo Z94320 courtesy Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
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Genomic study identifies human, animal hair in ‘man-eater’ lions’ teeth
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Illinois entomology professor Adam Dolezal, right, and graduate student Edward Hsieh found that pollen from natural sources enhances honey bee resilience when the bees are exposed to agricultural chemicals and infected with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus.
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Good nutrition boosts honey bee resilience against pesticides, viruses
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