Seth Bordenstein: Prioritizing Diversity in the Human Microbiome Sciences
Channel: Dr. Seth Bordenstein
Date: 11/10/2023

Dr. Seth Bordenstein, Professor of Biology and Entomology, Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences, Director of the One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State, has spent his career investigating ways that microorganisms interact and affect their host species. In this talk to the Life Sciences Research Symposium at the State University of New York at Albany, Dr. Bordenstein discusses human microbiome diversity and the imperative for a more complete and equitable framework to study microbiomes across the diversity and lived experiences of humans from childhood to adulthood. 

For additional information, see:
1. Gut bacteria variation among human social groups emerges by three months of age: https://www.psu.edu/news/eberly-college-science/story/gut-bacteria-variation-among-human-social-groups-emerges-three-months/
2. Ethnicity is an indicator of what microbes live in the gut: https://youtu.be/-0nWktOY4hU?feature=shared
3. Individuality and ethnicity eclipse a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viromes: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001758