Scientific and Holistic Investigation of Nutritional Endocrinology (SHINE) Conference: Guest Expert Series – Dr. Rob Knight: Tracking the Human Microbiome From Birth to Death (and Beyond) (Audio) – January 6th, 2016
Scientific and Holistic Investigation of Nutritional Endocrinology (SHINE) Guest Expert Series
“Tracking the Human Microbiome From Birth to Death
(and Beyond)”
with Dr. Rob Knight
January 6th, 2016
About the Call:
The human microbiome plays many important roles in the human body, from digestion to disease. These complex microbial communities, consisting of thousands of species, have been challenging to summarize in a useful way. Come learn about the statistical and visualization tools that Dr. Knight and his team have developed that allow us to trace the sources of microbes in all stages of life.
Downloads: Audio (Mp3)
Note From Dr. Ritamarie: This was an amazing call with Dr. Rob Knight about the microbiome and the work he and his team are doing on sequencing and classifying it. On the call, we discussed the direction this fascinating field is going in and the possibilities that lie ahead in associating disease with microbiome populations and particular interventions.
Some valuable resources shared on the call include:
- Dr. Knight’s book Follow Your Gut available on Amazon
- The American Gut Project: AmericanGut.org
- Dr. Knight’s website: knightlab.ucsd.edu
- Microbe.net
- FMT.gastro.org
About Special Guest:
Dr. Rob Knight is Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes.
He received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 1996 from the University of Otago in his native New Zealand, a PhD in 2001 from Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado, Boulder before becoming a faculty member in the interdisciplinary BioFrontiers Institute there in 2004. He moved to UC San Diego in 2015 to direct the new Microbiome Initiative.
His TED talk on the human microbiome has been viewed about 1 million times. His work combines microbiology, DNA sequencing, ecology and computer science to understand the vast numbers of microbes that inhabit our bodies and our planet.
Learn More: https://knightlab.ucsd.edu/
