Microbiology, Immunology, Animal Modeling & Imaging

Microbiology, Immunology, Animal Models and Imaging (MIAMI) Core provides decades of combined research and mentoring expertise, as well as access to cutting-edge laboratory technologies to enable training opportunities in and support for TB research in microbiology, molecular genetics, and biosafety level-3 (BSL3) handling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; immunologic tools to assess host responses to TB infection and diseases; and multiple clinically-relevant animal models of TB , alongside the capacity to conduct in vivo imaging with CT, PET, and SPECT.