{"id":3070,"date":"2026-04-27T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:18:20","slug":"first-friday-microbiome-seminar-from-data-to-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/2026\/04\/first-friday-microbiome-seminar-from-data-to-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"First Friday Microbiome Seminar: From Data to Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Microbiome studies are easy to generate and hard to interpret. The gap between association and mechanism is where most of the field is stuck.\u00a0This month\u2019s First Friday Microbiome Seminar leans directly into that gap, with work that ties microbial features to host biology and disease risk in a way that is testable and predictive.\u00a0If you care about moving past descriptive results, this is the conversation to be in.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2-280x210.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide1-2-600x450.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbiome studies are easy to generate and hard to interpret. The gap between association and mechanism is where most of the field is stuck.\u00a0This month\u2019s First Friday Microbiome Seminar leans directly into that gap, with work that ties microbial features to host biology and disease risk in a way that is testable and predictive.\u00a0If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/2026\/04\/first-friday-microbiome-seminar-from-data-to-mechanism\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Friday Microbiome Seminar: From Data to Mechanism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28079,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide2-1.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide2-1-300x225.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide2-1-768x576.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide2-1.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2026\/04\/Slide2-1-150x150.jpeg","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"Uncategorized","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/category\/uncategorized\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}