# Microbiome Engineering and Infectious Disease

**Source**: https://be.mit.edu/research/microbiome-engineering-and-infectious-disease/
**Parent**: https://be.mit.edu/undergraduate-program/bme-minor/

This research area seeks to understand microorganisms' biology and their interactions with human hosts.

## Types of Research

Understanding the complex relationships between humans and commensal or pathogenic microbes requires a diverse set of skills and concepts. Genomics and computational analysis is an essential aspect of this research area because\
DNA sequencing has become the primary means of measuring microbial communities.

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### Focus Areas

- Biosystems modeling and machine learning
- Host-microbe interactions and mechanisms
- Antimicrobial resistance

## Related Faculty

Spotlight

### [Douglas A. Lauffenburger](https://be.mit.edu/faculty/douglas-a-lauffenburger/)

Ford Professor of Engineering