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Understanding nutritional interactions for targeted microbiome manipulation
Our project aims to identify how microbiomes can be effectively manipulated to the benefit of their host. Microbiome manipulation has been in the spotlight as a potential solution to maintain or improve the health of several hosts, from threatened coral species to livestock and humans, but the development of industry-scale strategies has been slow. This project proposes to chart the nutritional interactions among microorganisms and to identify cascade effects of microbiome manipulation.
Dr Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino
+613 8344 8866 | vmarcelino@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- ARC DECRA Research Fellow
- Theme(s):
- Bacterial and Parasitic Infections
- Discipline(s):
- Discovery Research, Computational Science and Genomics, Public Health
- Unit(s):
- The University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI)
- Lab Group(s):
- Marcelino Group
Dr Marcelino works at the interface between microbial ecology, evolution and bioinformatics. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2017 focusing on the microbiome of coral skeletons. As a postdoc she developed new analytical tools to study human pathogens within microbiomes. Vanessa joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute and Melbourne Integrative Genomics in 2023. Her team focuses the ecology of microbial networks, tackling both applied challenges in the development of therapies and microbiome engineering, and fundamental questions on the eco-evolutionary processes underlying biological interactions.