Recipients of cMEDA 2025 summer research grants and scholarships
We are excited to announce the recipients of the Center for Microbiome Engineering and Data Analysis (cMEDA) summer research programs. Student Summer Research Scholarships Sareh Bayatpour – Doctoral Student, Biochemistry “Dissecting the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Bile Acid Dysregulation and Cholestatic Liver Injury Using Mdr2 Knockout Mice” Mentor: Dr. Huiping Zhou Cecile Brinkley […]
cMEDA Research and Technology Symposium – Program
Date: April 22nd, 2025, 10am-1pm Location: Sanger Hall, 1101 E Marshall St., Room 3016 The program includes: 10:00 – 10:15 AM Opening Remarks, Gregory Buck 10:15 – 10:45 AM CosmosID – technical presentation on how to democratize microbiome bioinformatics 10:45 – 11:30 AM Research highlights from 2024 Seed Grant and Summer Scholar Awardees Research 11:30 […]
cMEDA 2025 Student Summer Research Scholarships
cMEDA Student Summer Research Scholarship program is accepting applications (deadline: 5/1/2025). Application form: (link) The purpose of this program is to help students get valuable experience in research focused on enhancing our understanding of the microbiome, or aimed at improving wet lab and data analytics methods for studying it, and to catalyze the development of […]
cMEDA Seed Grants 2025
cMEDA Faculty/Postdoc/Fellow/Resident Seed Grants for Microbiome Research summer program is accepting applications (deadline: 5/1/2025). Application form: (link) The purpose of this program is to catalyze the development of new microbiome-oriented research programs at VCU. cMEDA plans to provide support for early stage and transitional faculty, or postdoctoral investigators, fellows or residents working with faculty mentors […]
cMEDA to host research and technology symposium on April 22
The program includes a technical presentation by CosmosID, and research highlights from recipients of 2024 cMEDA Faculty/Postdoc Seed Grants and cMEDA Student Summer Scholarships. Date: April 22nd, 2025, 10am-1pm Location: Sanger Hall, 1101 E Marshall St., Room 3016 If you plan to attend, please fill out the registration form.
cMEDA Student Summer Scholarships
cMEDA Summer Research Scholarhip program is accepting applications (deadline: 3/31/2024). Application form: (link) The purpose of this program is to help students get valuable experience in research focused on enhancing our understanding of the microbiome, or aimed at improving wet lab and data analytics methods for studying it, and to catalyze the development of microbiome-oriented […]
cMEDA Seed Grants
cMEDA Seed Grants summer program is accepting applications (deadline: 3/31/2024). Application form: (link) The purpose of this program is to catalyze the development of new microbiome-oriented research programs at VCU. cMEDA plans to provide support for early stage and transitional faculty, or postdoctoral investigators, fellows or residents working with faculty mentors to launch new microbiome […]
cMEDA Seed Grants and Scholarships Symposium
The event includes presentations by recipients of cMEDA Faculty/Postdoc Seed Grants and cMEDA Student Summer Scholarships. Date: February 2nd, 2024, 1pm-4pm Location: Smith Building, 410 N. 12th St., Room 129
cMEDA to host research and technology forum April 19
cMEDA, the VCU Genomics Core and the VCU Bioinformatics Core will host a Research and Technology Mini Symposium on Wednesday, April 19 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The symposium will features presentations by local cMEDA researchers, as well as technical presentations on CosmosID and Element Bio. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
Virginia Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence
VCU Center for Microbiome Engineering and Data Analysis investigators has been selected in a national initiative to establish Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence across the country. The $90 million project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aims to develop and improve genomic innovations for preventing, controlling and responding to infectious disease threats. […]