Microbial colonization and resilience in the human gut
Channel: Meren Lab
Date: 2021-07-01

A presentation by Andrea R. Watson (University of Chicago, Committee on Microbiology), who was a graduate student at the Meren Lab between between 06/2017 and 09/2021, on her graduate work on human gut microbiome.

0:00 Meren's Intro
02:03 Commemorating Eric Littmann
02:59 Introduction to microbes, fundamental questions of human microbiome, and the power of FMT
09:56 The FMT study
15:30 Investigating forces that drive colonization and resilience
20:20 Investigating characteristics of high-fitness and low-fitness microbial populations
23:45 Metabolic competence
26:13 A model to explain differences between microbial diversity of healthy and unhealthy gut environments from a metabolic perspective
27:37 The Dark Knight hypothesis
29:47 Importance of highly-resolved analyses
35:20 Lessons learned from multi-omics
38:36 Acknowledgements

The following URL gives access to the entirety of the original study mentioned in this presentation:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.02.433653

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