Evolution and Adaptation of the Human Microbiome

The bacteria within the human body (microbiome) are vital to human health, and alterations to these intricate microbial communities are now associated with disease. Using ancient DNA, this project aims to examine the evolutionary history of the human microbiome by exploring ancient bacterial communities preserved in calcified dental plaque (calculus) over the past 10 000 years. This will provide valuable information that reveals how these bacterial communities respond to alterations in human diet, environment, culture, and location. By monitoring changes in a natural modern system, this project aims to determine how these microbial communities established themselves within the human body, elucidating how the microbiome may respond in the future.

Output(s)

Consequences of Colonialism: a microbial perspective to contemporary Indigenous health

Type

Journal article

Authors

E Skelly, K Kapellas, A Cooper, LS Weyrich

Publisher

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Publication date

2018

Rights notice

File

ajpa.23637.pdf

Link

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30159882/

Embracing the gut microbiota: the new frontier for inflammatory and infectious diseases

Type

Journal article

Authors

Lieke WJ van den Elsen, Hazel C Poyntz, Laura S Weyrich, Wayne Young, Elizabeth E Forbes-Blom

Publisher

Clinical & Translational Immunology

Publication date

2017

Rights notice

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

File

Clin Trans Imm - 2017 - van den Elsen - Embracing the gut microbiota the new frontier for inflammatory and infectious.pdf

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/cti.2016.91

Response of Salivary Microbiota to Caries Preventive Treatment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

Type

Journal article

Authors

Skelly E, Johnson NW, Kapellas K, Kroon J, Lalloo R, Weyrich L

Publisher

J Oral Microbiol

Publication date

2020

Rights notice

Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

File

Response of Salivary Microbiota to Caries Preventive Treatment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.pdf

Link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586720/

Project information

Project ownerNot listed

Please note

This project has not been verified by the project owner and may be missing data, such as Indigenous involvement and the language group involved. If you are the owner of this project, please get in touch with the Yumi Sabe team.

Is this your project?

Apply for an account. You can then request ownership and start managing how your project/s are discovered.

Request an account

Note: If you have already requested an account, please ensure you have verified your email address. This will allow the team to process your request.

Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

Dr Laura Weyrich

laura.weyrich@adelaide.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Dr Laura Weyrich

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

2015

End date2018

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Response of Salivary Microbiota to Caries Preventive Treatment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

The authors acknowledge and pay their respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which this research took place: the Anggamuthi, Atambay, Wuthathi, Yadhaykenu and Gudang peoples of the Northern Peninsular Area (NPA); the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains; the Yugambeh/Kombumerri peoples of the Gold Coast; and the Turrbal and Jagara people of the Brisbane (Meanjin) area. This study would not have been possible without the generous support and cooperation of the Elders, the Mayor and Councillors of the Northern Peninsula Area Authority, and members of the Area Community Health Services. Our sincerest thanks to the Principal and Heads of Campuses of the NPA State College for enabling our research, and most of all, we are grateful to the children and their families. We thank other members of the project team for their involvement and assistance in this research, especially Dr Sanjeewa Kularatna, Dr Ohnmar Tut, Prof. Lisa Jamieson, Prof. Paul Scuffham, and our Indigenous colleagues, Valda Wallace and Yvonne Cadet-James for advice. We thank A/Prof. Robyn Boase, A/Prof. Don Gilchrist, and Helen Mills for being part of the team performing epidemiological screenings and sample collection. We thank Wendy Bell for her excellent project management, as well as the team responsible for rendering children in need dentally fit: Dr Joel Rogers, Elizabeth Cobbledick, Carole Williams, and Amber Sullivan. We thank Dr David Speicher for advice on sample collection and protocols, and Dr Paul Gooding for all his help with sequencing through AGRF

Evolution and Adaptation of the Human Microbiome

Output(s)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this website may contain images, voices and names of deceased persons.

AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.