ANIMAL MICROBIOME RESEARCH LABORATORY

Johnson Lab | Purdue University | Dept. Animal Sciences

The complex community of microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract (microbiota) has gained appreciation by scientists, physicians, and the general population in recent years. The microbiome exhibits broad reaching impacts and plays a role in host nutrition, pathogen colonization resistance, gastrointestinal disease, immune and digestive system regulation, even cardiovascular disease and neurological development and disease. Animal agriculture is about to undergo a transformation in which the microbiome is optimized and engineered rather than repressed by antibiotic use. Animal producers are seeking for alternatives to the antibiotics to maintain healthy, disease resistant animals and a safe food supply to the public. By understanding and promoting the microbiome, we utilize biological controls of unwanted microbiome invaders and promote benefits host-microbe interactions, while minimizing undesirable collateral effects, like antibiotic resistance.

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The AMR lab is a member of the Purdue Applied Microbiome Sciences group at Purdue. Please check here for more broad microbiome activities at Purdue.

2023 Midwest Microbiome Symposium

We are excited to contribute to the organization of the 2023 Midwest Microbiome Symposium hosted by Ohio State University. Keynote speakers include

Dr. Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University

Dr. Eric Martens, University of Michigan

2022 Purdue Microbiome Symposium: Systems Biology and Computational Approaches

We are excited to contribute to the organization of the 2022 Purdue Applied Microbiome Sciences Symposium. We have lined up an exciting line up of keynote speakers and the rest of the program will be forthcoming from the submitted abstracts. Please consider coming to Purdue to join the symposium! Please contact us if you have any questions.

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AMR Lab in the News

Breed affects broiler gut response to SalmonellaA recently completed research study revealed significant differences in the gut health and immune response between slow-growing and fast-growing broilers challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium.

Press release regarding the completion of our US Poultry and Egg project in collaboration with Dr. Shawna Weimer of University of Maryland

2021 FellowsMeet the FFAR Fellows | 2021-2024 Jabeen Ahmad North Carolina State University Plant & Microbial Biology Sponsor: Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk Randi Butler North Carolina State University Biosystems Analytics Sponsor: NC State University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the NIFA National Needs

Paul Oladele was selected as a 2021 FFAR Fellow.

"The FFAR Fellows Program was established to provide professional development and career guidance to the next generation of food and agriculture scientists across the Foundation for Food and Agriculture’s Challenge Areas and strategic initiatives."

Purdue press release for a recently published paper joint with the Hamaker lab

Purdue College of Agriculture magazine features microbiome research at Purdue.

Purdue press release announcing funding for the Johnson lab to research bovine respiratory disease in a team lead by Mohit Verma