IMPACTT Introduction Video
Learn about our aims, expertise, network, and activities with our Director Dr. Kathy McCoy. Discover how we can help Canadian microbiome researchers conduct causal and translational studies to improve human health and well-being. Contact usEmail us at [email protected]
Exploring the Microbiome with @MediaplanetCA
From health and disease to unravelling the Microbiome of extreme environments, this special campaign by Media Planet highlights cutting-edge and promising microbiome research and technical expertise across Canada. Notably featured is the International Microbiome Centre (IMC), based out of the University of Calgary and led by our IMPACTT Director Dr. Kathy McCoy. The IMC is […]
Documentary: Let Them Eat Dirt
Dr. Brett Finlay and Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta (IMPACTT Platform 2 Co-Lead) have written an engaging and important book called Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving our Children from an Oversanitized World. In the book, they explain how the millions of microbes that live in our bodies influence childhood development, and why an imbalance in those microbes can […]
Video: Host-Microbe-Environment Interactions
Over the past few years, evidence has revealed the key role that microbes play in human health and disease. This short animated video highlights key concepts that are considered in research to understand the intrinsic host-microbe-environment relationships and enable researchers to harness this knowledge to improve our health. This short animated video highlights key concepts […]
Killam Award Recognizes Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta, Our Platform 2 Co-Lead
On 19 October 2020, our Platform 2 Co-Lead Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta was one of three recipients of the prestigious University of Calgary’s 2020 Killam Emerging Research Leader Award. This award acknowledges her outstanding contributions, as an early-career faculty, to understand how the early-life microbiota shapes children’s health. Read more about this news here. Dr. Arrieta […]
New Paper: From Birth to Overweight and Atopic Disease: Multiple and Common Pathways of the Infant Gut Microbiome
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! This recent study from Dr. Kozyrskyj’s team and colleagues highlights how birth factors from the CHILD study cohort (@CHILDSTUDY) correlate to changes in the gut microbes of infants to “determine the pathways by which these alterations may lead to an increased risk […]
