#  Emily Balskus investigates a microbial menace 

 





December 04, 2017

 

 

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 [Emily Balskus](https://www.microbialchemist.com/), the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has discovered a predator among our ususally symbiotic microbiome. With collaborator Federico Rey, an assistant professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her Lab identified a specific strain of *E. coli* that consumes a valuable nutrient in our gut: choline.

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