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CMIT Clinical Research Talk & Mixer: Disordered eating, obesity, and the gut microbiome
CMIT held a Clinical Research Talk and Mixer featuring the research of Dr. Jason Zhang, MD PhD, who described his work with Blautia species.
CMIT Clinical Scientist receives IBD journal award
CMIT Clinical Scientist Marjolein Klaassen, MD, PhD, was selected for the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases journal’s award for best basic science/translational article of 2024.
CMIT Rasmussen Fellows Talks & Mixer
On December 12th 2024, the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics held its first Rasmussen Fellows Talks and Mixer event in Hayden Library. The evening spotlighted the research of CMIT’s inaugural Neil and Anna Rasmussen Fellows, Alyssa Haynes Mitchell and Daniel Pascal, and included posters from CMIT Clinical Scholars Jason Zhang, MD PhD, Marjolein Klaassen, […]
Meet the CMIT 2024 Rasmussen Fellows
Alyssa Haynes Mitchell and Daniel Pascal, the Center’s inaugural Neil and Anna Rasmussen Fellowship recipients, discuss their research, interest in the microbiome, and key challenges in the field.
CMIT Clinical Scholar receives prestigious AGA award
Jason (Yanjia) Zhang, MD, PhD was one of six recipients selected for the American Gastroenterological Society’s 2024 Research Scholar Awards for early career investigators.
Annual MIT Microbiome Symposium 2024
The 2024 symposium featured keynote presentations from Dr. Emrah Altindis (Boston College) and Dr. Sophie McCoy (University of North Carolina), as well as flash talk presentations by trainees and a scientific poster session.
Annual MIT Microbiome Symposium 2023
The MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and the MIT Microbiome Club are proud to invite you to participate in our annual MIT Microbiome Symposium to be held on Friday, April 7, 2023
Searching for bacteria that protect against IBD
CMIT researchers are pinpointing bacterial species that trigger the development of special immune cells which may be protective against ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory disorders.
CMIT Global Diversity Resource Program
The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (CMIT) is pleased to partner with MIT spin-out OpenBiome to provide MIT researchers with no-cost, priority access to the Global Microbiome Conservancy strain collection through a targeted pilot program.