Microbiome & Infectious Disease Research

The human microbiome is now recognized to impact almost all aspects of human health and disease. The Surette lab investigates the human microbiome of the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. The lab is focused on developing high throughput culturing and phenotyping methods to investigate infectious disease and the microbiome by applying and improving next-generation sequencing approaches to characterize the microbiome, and exploiting secondary metabolic products of the human microbiome.