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SUMMARY:Precision metagenomic analysis in personalised medicine and birth 
 cohort studies - Dr Trevor Lawley\; Co-founder and Chief Scientific Office
 r\, Microbiotica\,  Faculty Group Leader: Host-Microbiota Interactions Tea
 m\, Wellcome Sanger Institute 
DTSTART:20190430T110000Z
DTEND:20190430T120000Z
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CONTACT:Bobbie Claxton
DESCRIPTION:Studies at the Human Microbiota Interactions lab have addresse
 d key bottlenecks in high resolution strain profiling and functional valid
 ation of the gut microbiota through the development of reference genome-ba
 sed analysis approach that vastly increases the precision and efficiency o
 f metagenomic analysis.  Our approach is underpinned by mass isolation of 
 bacteria and generation of a large reference genome sequence database. We 
 call this approach “Precision Metagenomics”.   Precision metagenomics 
 underpins studies in HMIL and the Wellcome Sanger Institute spinout compan
 y Microbiotica\, which has industrialised the platform and is using it for
  biomarker and therapeutic discovery. The platform and its application wil
 l be discussed in the context of a major UK Baby Cohort study aiming to fi
 nd correlates between early life microbiota development and long-term heal
 th and disease.
LOCATION:Babraham - The Cambridge Building - The Kings Hedges Room
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