Recent technological advances, both experimental and computational, make it possible to address key questions that will bring a quantitative, mechanistic, and molecular understanding of environmental effects on human biology. Human Ecosystems research and services at EMBL aim to arrive at a molecular understanding of how we interact with our physical, biological, and social environments to identify avenues for the mitigation and treatment of disease.
This workshop aimed to identify quantitative molecular proxies of environmental exposures through bringing together experts from across epidemiology, toxicology, social science, and computational biology.
A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome shows that disrupting the gut microbiome of male mice increases the risk of disease in their future offspring.