Using genomics to enrich our knowledge of the human gut microbiome

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• Dr Alexandre Almeida, ESPOD Postdoctoral Fellow - Finn research group, EMBL-EBI
• Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00
• Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107.

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During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

The study of the human gut microbiome, the complex community of microorganisms inhabiting our intestinal tract, represents an emerging area of biomedical research. Given the hundreds to thousands of microbes that live inside us, the main challenges in the field are understanding who these microbes are and how they contribute to human health. In this talk, I will present how genomics can help us capture the diversity of the gut microbiome at an unprecedented resolution and how these approaches have allowed us to identify almost 2,000 uncultured bacterial species that had never been seen before. These results have opened a microbiome pandora’s box, raising important questions regarding the role of the many uncultured gut bacteria in host health and disease.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine series.

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• Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

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