EH Gijs van Seventer Seminar Series: Obesity, Asthma, and the Microbiome

  • Starts: 12:45 pm on Friday, March 24, 2017
  • Ends: 1:45 pm on Friday, March 24, 2017
Stephanie Shore, PhD Department of Environmental Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health////Obesity augments pulmonary responses to the air pollutant, ozone, including ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness, a canonical feature of asthma. The mechanistic basis for this effect of obesity is not well understood. Dr. Shore will describe work using obese mice, germ free conditions, antibiotic treatment, fecal transplants, and 16S sequencing of fecal DNA to examine the hypothesis that obesity-related changes in the gut microbiome contribute to obesity-related changes in the response to ozone.
Location:
L-210, 72 East Concord St.
Registration:
http://www.bu.edu/sph/about/departments/environmental-health/ehseminars/
Contact Name:
Jean van Seventer
Contact Phone:
617-638-6493

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