Marie-Claire Arrieta

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology and Paediatrics

Contact Information:

Physiology & Pharmacology and Paediatrics

Address: 1867 Health Science Centre

3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1

Phone: (403) 220-4566

Fax: (403) 210-9747

Email: marie.arrieta@ucalgary.ca

Curriculum Vitae:

PhD, June 2011, Specialty: Experimental Medicine. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Licenciatura (5.5 year degree)in Microbiology, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Conferred September 2001.

MSc in Physiology and Cell Biology, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Conferred June 2005

Potential Graduate Supervisor

Microbiologists have known for quite some time that we encounter microbes everywhere, all the time, and yes, that often includes fecal microbes too. For 200 years, since germs were first associated with infectious diseases, we have all learned to fear and get rid of them. But it is until very recently that we begin to understand how important microbes are for our health, especially when we are children. As part of the International Microbiome Center at the Cumming School of Medicine of the University of Calgary, our lab is interested in understanding how humans begin their life in the company of trillions of microbes — our early-life microbiome, and how this microbiome helps define important aspects of immune and metabolic development.

Our lab's approach to tackle these complex questions is to combine next generation microbiome sequencing data with metabolic and immune studies in both humans and animal models of diseases, such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease.

Welcome to our lab and feel free to contact us if you want to learn more, or even better, join our team.