Report summary

University of Michigan–ann Arbor Department of Microbiology and Immunology in 2021-2023 reads as a 36-PI network with 42 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (39% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), Immunology as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Gut microbiota and health as the leading topic (7% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 14 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Yongqun He (16.8 weighted works; vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies). The strongest pairings are Katherine Gallagher and Frank M. Davis (17 shared works, weight 12.1). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 24.6, around Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Medicine, led by Patrick D. Schloss, Vincent B. Young, Evan S. Snitkin.