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This project investigates how intestinal bacteria influence host metabolism and health by studying the interactions between hosts and their symbiotic microbes. Using Drosophila as a model, it explores the regulation of bacterial metabolism and its effects on gastrointestinal functions and nutrition.
Intestinal bacteria have been associated with the most diverse aspects of our physiology, and large efforts are being undertaken to determine how the metabolic repertoire of the microbiome impacts host nutrition and health.
These efforts, however, face major obstacles.
First, we have a very poor understanding of how bacterial metabolism is regulated in the different sections of the gastrointestinal tract.
It is also becoming increasingly clear that symbionts support their hosts by means that ext…
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG
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Germany, Koln
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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