“This center touches on the struggles any parent or caregiver undergoes because they want to make the best decisions about what their loved ones are exposed to, but that’s a really difficult thing to do because we don’t yet know what a healthy microbiome might look like in the places we spend most of our time. Our goal is to start to fill those data gaps and lay the foundation for researchers to dig into these important questions.”
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2025 Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Liesl Jeffers-Francis, a noted microbiologist at N.C. A&T State University and PreMiEr researcher, received a 2025 Award for Excellence in Teaching awarded by the UNC Board of Governors. Dr. Jeffers-Francis is one of 17 faculty chosen from among all of North...
New PreMiEr Publication
CONGRATULATIONS to PreMiEr researchers Christopher Cummings, Kristen Landreville, and Jennifer Kuzma for their paper just published in Frontiers of Genetics- Natural vs. genetically engineered microbiomes: understanding public attitude for indoor applications and...
PreMiEr Industry Summit Highlights
PreMiEr's Innovation Ecosystem foundation under the direction of Dr. Anurodh Tripathi, in collaboration with PreMiEr partners from industry, government, and non-profits and researchers from within the ERC, were proud to gather at the inaugural Microbiome of the Built...





