Associate Professor of Microbiology Brenda Wilson is co-leader in a project in which the University of Illinois joins forces with the Mayo Clinic and the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Using results from the Human Microbiome Project―an NIH program to catalog the microbes within the human body―The Mayo-Illinois Strategic Alliance for Technology-Based Health Care is exploring bacteria associated with urogenital infections, with a special interest in the link between vaginal infection and pre-term birth.