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Everyone
Required Reading/Viewing
- [1] "How our microbes make us who we are". (17 min)
Talk by Rob Knight about the human microbiome, Feb 2014. - [2] "Microbiome engineering." Brief Sonnenburg article on potential applications of microbiome engineering.
- [3] Achievements and future prospects in microbiome engineering.
- [4] Brief description of four companies currently designing microbiome therapies.
- NIH Microbiome Project. Ethical concerns of microbiome research and probiotics. Read abstract for each section.
1. Fecal Transplants
Required Reading/Viewing
- [5] Fecal microbiome transplant in the treatment of C. difficile
- [6] History of fecal transplants.
- [7] Slideshow summary of fecal microbiome transplants by gastroenterologists (some medical jargon, but informative).
- [8] Do it yourself fecal transplants. Yep.
2. Microbiome and Obesity
Required Reading/Viewing
- [9] Summary of possible mechanisms relating gut microbiome to obesity.
- [10] Recent review critiquing microbiome role in obesity.
3. Microbiome after birth and in development
Required Reading/Viewing
- [11] Scientists swab C-section babies with mothers' microbes
- [12] Effect of antibiotics on microbiome throughout development
4. Oral Microbiome Engineering
Required Reading/Viewing
- [13] Oragenics, a company devoted to engineering the oral microbiome.