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Everyone

There are more bacterial cells in your body than human ones. (Image from this site)

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. [1] "How our microbes make us who we are". (17 min)
    Talk by Rob Knight about the human microbiome, Feb 2014.
  2. [2] "Microbiome engineering." Brief Sonnenburg article on potential applications of microbiome engineering.
  3. [3] Achievements and future prospects in microbiome engineering.
  4. NIH Microbiome Project. Ethical concerns of microbiome research and probiotics. Read abstract for each section.

1. Fecal Transplants

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. [4] Fecal microbiome transplant in the treatment of C. difficile
  2. [5] History of fecal transplants.
  3. [6] Slideshow summary of fecal microbiome transplants by gastroenterologists (some medical jargon, but informative).
  4. [7] Do it yourself fecal transplants. Yep.

2. Microbiome and Obesity

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. [8] Summary of possible mechanisms relating gut microbiome to obesity.
  2. [9] Recent review critiquing microbiome role in obesity.

3. Microbiome after birth and in development

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. [10] Scientists swab C-section babies with mothers' microbes
  2. [11] Effect of antibiotics on microbiome throughout development

4. Oral Microbiome Engineering

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. [12] Oragenics, a company devoted to engineering the oral microbiome.
  2. [13] Hillman, J.D. (2002) Genetically modified Streptococcus mutans for the prevention of dental caries. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 82::361-366.