Duchossois Family Institute Microbiome Metabolomics (DFIMM) provides resources to measure, characterize, and identify the metabolites produced or modified by microbes to better understand how these molecules function in microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions/communication and how these processes influence human health and disease.
The Symbiotic Bacterial Strain Bank (SBSB) contains almost 2000 bacterial strains, isolated from healthy human fecal donors, that have been anaerobically cultured and characterized and are available to the research community.
Supporting our facilities are our bioinformaticians who provide comprehensive computational data analyses, including genome assembly and annotation, using computation software programs to analyze microbial genome sequences and characterizing their metabolite utilization and secretion to better understand how commensal bacteria impact human health.
The Microbiome Metagenomics Facility (MMF)
Please Note: The DFI Microbiome Metagenomics (MMF) Core is phasing out sequencing services. Thus, beginning 8/11/2026, we are not accepting new sequencing projects.
For Metagenomic sequencing needs, we encourage you to consider the following providers:
We recommend the 47014 Qiagen DNeasy Powersoil Pro kit for DNA extraction from fecal samples.
Please contact Eric Pamer with any questions regarding on-going projects and MMF service.
