About Us
Metabiota's mission is to mitigate threats from, and create harmony with, the microbial world.
Metabiota develops and implements products, services and technologies for governments and the private sector. The company specializes in disease and pathogen detection, evaluation and response through the integration of field and lab research with health data analytics. Metabiota has a demonstrated track record in international collaboration, scientific and public health surveillance capacity-building, and research with high public health impact.
Our Name
A “metabiota” is microbiological term referring to a stable relationship between a group of hosts and the various microbes that inhabit them.
Recent News
Nathan Wolfe writes about the microbial world for National Geographic
Microbes: Small, Small World »
Metabiota Scientist Profiled by UCSF
UCSF (Global Health Sciences): Amethyst Gillis, MS 2011 »
National Geographic: Anatomy of the Discovery of the Deadly Bas-Congo Virus »
ScienceNOW: A 3-Year Search Uncovers Novel Hemorrhagic Fever Virus »
About Global Viral & Metabiota
A press release on our name changes. Download pdf 
Team Publications
A complete list of publications from our team members. Download pdf
Ethics Statement
Metabiota's guidance on ethical business conduct and is derived
from and supports other company policies and procedures-all of which help ensure appropriate
business conduct. Download pdf