TMI announces a new research publication: Chronic stress and the house sparrow microbiome

TMI’s founder, Anne A. Madden, Ph.D. published a research paper on the impact of captivity and chronic stress on the microbiome of wild house sparrows. In collaboration with a team of scientists from Tufts University, Louisiana State University, Yale University, University of Colorado, and Colorado State University, she found that both captivity and mild chronic stress had dramatic, but somewhat reversible impacts on the microbiome of wild house sparrows. Read the full article, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, here. This is The Microbe Institute’s first official research publication!