Guest Editor
Peggy Lai, MD, MPH, Harvard University, USA
Genome Medicine is calling for submission to a new Collection on translating the microbiome in health and disease, guest edited by Peggy Lai from Harvard University.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being.
Genome Medicine is calling for submission to a new Collection on translating the microbiome in health and disease.
Over the past two decades progress in the study of the human microbiome has accelerated. Critical to this advancement is the advent of novel technologies which have allowed the interrogation of the complex host-microbiome relationship. These tools, techniques and methods have helped accomplish the phylogenomic characterization of diverse microbiomes, permitted the functional profiling of microbiome data, and have given us a deeper understanding of how the microbiome relates to different disease states and mechanisms. Particularly intriguing is how the analysis of microbiome and multi-omics data can be utilized for clinical benefit and improve patient care.
To capture advances in this growing area, Genome Medicine is pleased to announce a call for papers for our upcoming special collection on ‘Translating the microbiome in health and disease,’ guest edited by Peggy Lai from Harvard University We are particularly interested in encouraging collaboration between basic and clinical researchers. The Guest Editor may be able to provide guidance on fostering such collaborations; please contact the editorial team to discuss further.
We are now inviting the submission of Research, Method, Software, Database and Guideline manuscripts of outstanding interest describing insights into all aspects of the human microbiome in health and disease including:
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Peggy Lai, MD, MPH, Harvard University, USA
Dr Lai is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) in New York City followed by Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her current research portfolio revolves broadly around the use of high-dimensional data in clinical and translational studies to better understand research at the intersection of environmental exposures, the human microbiome, and chronic lung diseases. Recent projects focus on microbial (including viral) exposures in elementary schools and asthma morbidity, the effect of supplemental oxygen on the airway microbiome, and the role of household air pollution exposure on the human microbiome. Her laboratory also focuses on methods development for successful microbiome sequencing of challenge samples including respiratory and built environment samples.
There are currently no articles in this collection.
This Collection welcomes submission of Research, Method, Software, Database, and Guideline articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines .
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Translating the microbiome in health and disease" from the dropdown menu.
All articles submitted to Collections are peer reviewed in line with the journal’s standard peer review policy and are subject to all of the journal’s standard editorial and publishing policies. This includes the journal’s policy on competing interests.
The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editor or Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.