Dr. Zakee Sabree obtains $1.2M grant from NSF to identify gut bacteria that promote healthy animal development
Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology Associate Professor Zakee
L. Sabree has received a four-year $1.2M grant to identify gut bacterial
species that promote normal growth and development in animals. Dr.
Sabree has pioneered the production of axenic (germ-free) American
cockroaches as an animal model to explore how complex gut
microbiomes, like those found in humans, livestock, pets, etc., are
essential for healthy growth and development. With this support, Dr.
Sabree has assembled a diverse multidisciplinary team that includes
coPIs Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI) and Professor Asuman
Turkmen (Statistics) that will use advanced statistical and machine
learning approaches to mine terabytes of data generated by Dr.
Sabree’s team to identify host-beneficial bacteria.
Link to Insect-Microbial Symbiosis La - Sabree Lab
