In this publication, we have optimised a protocol for profiling the microbes present in faecal samples from preterm infants using DNA sequencing via an approach called 16S rRNA gene meta-taxonomic profiling.

We have recently published a journal article in Genome Biology and Evolution that describes 5 novel Clostridium bacterial strains that we isolated as part of a wider Hall Lab study, examining the microbiota of preterm infants (BAMBI).