Robo-gut https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:40:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 ‘Robo-gut’ prof part of $25-million research project https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/2019/04/robo-gut-prof-part-of-25-million-research-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robo-gut-prof-part-of-25-million-research-project Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:38:27 +0000 https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/?p=2961 U of G microbiologist is part of an international research team studying the connection between microbes in the body and cancer.

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]]> A University of Guelph microbiologist is part of an international research team receiving a $25-million award under the world’s most ambitious cancer research grant.

Prof. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is among 14 researchers from five countries on a research team looking to study connections between microbes in the body and cancer.
Her expertise in culturing gut microbes developed in her U of G lab – and its custom-designed “robo-gut” mimicking the workings of the large intestine – led the team’s principal investigators to invite her to join the project.

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