The human gut microbiome plays a key role in health and disease. Fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT), where a community from a healthy donor is transferred into a patient’s gut to modulate the microbiome, is an established treatment for some diseases, e.g., C. difficile infections. FMT is now being trialled for a wide variety of conditions where the gut microbiome is implicated, including irritable bowel diseases (IBDs) and ulcerative colitis (UC).
The student will be based within the Quince group at the Earlham Institute, which uses cutting-edge computational and experimental methods to study microbiomes. The Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics (MMB) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is open to UK and international candidates with relevant undergraduate degrees
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