About the Project

Infant in a Daycare with Possible Pathogen Exposures

Pitch slide from the Math and the Microbiome Workshop.

The DIAPRS Project is a collaboration that formed out of the Math and the Microbiome Workshop that took place at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at the Ohio State University in October of 2018.  The project goal is to use high-frequency sampling over a long period of time in daycare centers to understand the scales at which microbes (mostly bacteria and viruses) in infants’ guts change as infants are exposed to more things in their environments.  Some particular exposures we are interested in exploring are: diet changes, pets and other animals, other infants and children, and enteric disease events.  Thanks to a pilot grant from the Infectious Disease Institute, we are starting the project in Summer 2020 (an interesting time to be starting).  We’ll be adding updates about the project here as we pursue this interesting area of study.  Feel free to contact us using the information in the footer.