INRA. CBS. Danone Research. Research. EMBL Heidelberg. What's your gut type? - Press Release - Gut bacteria could help with diagnostics and influence treatments. Bacterial balance that keeps us healthy - Press Release - EMBL scientists present genetic catalogue of our gut flora. MetaHIT: Gut Instinct - EMBL in the Press. Vall d' Hebron Research Institute. Hagedorn Research Institute. UCB. Wageningen University. Humans shown to have intestinal bacteria groups as well as blood groups. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. MetaHIT Consortium. Background The Sanger Institute contributes to MetaHIT by producing draft nucleotide sequence for the genomes of 100 bacterial strains commonly found in the human intestinal tract.
This will provide a reference set of genomes for future studies. The first 30 strains sequenced will be cultured bacteria, while the remaining 70 will be bacteria that cannot yet be grown in the laboratory. For these 70 uncultured bacteria, individual bacterial cells will be isolated and the whole of the single copy of the genome amplified to generate sufficient DNA for nucleotide sequencing. This work is being carried out with the help of our collaborators at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health in Aberdeen, and Dr Annick Bernalier (Microbiology Unit, INRA Clermont-Ferrand Paired-end sequencing generates sequence reads from both ends of a DNA fragment.
The scaffold information for each genome is given in two files produced by the GS De Novo Assembler. Draft Genome Sequences for Cultured Strains. CEA Genoscope. Projects4. Metagenomics of Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHIT) Collaboratiion with 7 countries and 11 institutes from Europe Metagenomics is the study of microbial genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples, such as human intestinal, soil, liquor-making koji and etc.
Facilitated by the development of new sequencing technology, we’re now able to study the microbes which can’t be cultivated in the lab. The throughput capability of the next-generation sequencers is advantageous to tackle the highly complex populations. The MetaHIT project is part of the 7th Framework Programme of EU and aims to study the microbiome constituting human intestinal flora in order to characterize its functions and implications on health. This is an international collaborating effort of BGI-Shenzhen and 7 countries and 11 institutes from Europe. University of Copenhagen. What's your intestinal bacteria type? 20 April 2011 Interstinal flora types As partners in the international research consortium named MetaHit, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have contributed to show that an individual’s intestinal bacteria flora, regardless of nationality, gender and age, organises itself in certain clusters.
The cluster of intestinal bacteria flora is hypothesised to have an influence on how we react to both our diet and medicine absorbed through the gastro-intestinal tract. The results have recently been published in the journal Nature. Most people know about blood types, some also know about tissue types. However, now we may need to consider intestinal bacteria types as well. As part of a large, international research consortium, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have recently contributed to map special ”enterotypes”, which are three distinctive clusters of bacteria in the human distal gut.
Discovery will influence future research New opportunity for studying gut bacteria Contact. Merieux Institute. Merieux Institute - Food safety : public health projects. Institut Mérieux: committed to nutrition and health Preventing infectious or toxicological risks linked to food, providing a high level of safety and quality for these products, contributing to the development of functional foods with health benefits, form one of the priorities of Institut Mérieux. Mérieux NutriSciences (with its three divisions) and bioMérieux, in particular with its industrial microbiology activities, are the Group’s backbone in this area.
Both are world leaders. Mérieux NutriSciences provides services to agri-food and food service companies, and distributors: biological and chemical analyses, R&D, clinical studies, auditing and consulting, training. bioMérieux develops, produces and distributes systems and reagents for diagnosis used by monitoring laboratories for microbiological quality control in agri-food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. Through these two companies, Institut Mérieux thus provides overlapping expertise to its partners.