May 31, 2026
Dr. Mellata’s Lab recently shared their research at the Midwest Microbiome Symposium hosted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mellata gave the keynote talk, The Avian Segmented Filamentous Bacteria: A master of gut immunity and microbiome development in early life and Caleb Skow presented a poster titled, Exploring how a host-specific microbe modulates early gut immunity in chickens through targeted kinome array testing.
Midwest Microbiome Symposium:
https://publish.illinois.edu/microbialsystems/events/midwest-microbiome-symposium-2026/