by Kristina Campbell
Guillaume Sarrabayrouse achieved his PhD in immunology at the Claudius Regaud Institute of Cancer Research in Toulouse, France.
A long-term goal of gut microbiota research is to find a method of normalizing the microbiota early in life and sustaining it though the lifespan.
by Kristina Campbell
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), which is up to 90% effective in treating recurrent Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection, may or may not be an effective treatment for other conditions.
An article published in Science Advances studied the microbiome of Yanomami subjects in the Amazon with no previous record of contact with non-Yanomami - the most isolated community ever explored in the microbiome literature.
Dr. Lora Hooper, a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is investigating the relationship between the immune system and the circadian system in the gut.
"I'd like to get you to think differently about viruses," announced Dr. Herbert 'Skip' Virgin at the 2015 Keystone Symposium, Gut Microbiota Modulation of Host Physiology - an event where most researchers in attendance focus on the bacterial residents of the gut.
by Kristina Campbell
Dr. R. Balfour Sartor is a gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist working at the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, at the University of North Carolina (USA).
by Kristina Campbell
Lora Hooper is a professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas), and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her lab studies immune mechanisms that prevent bacteria from crossing intestinal barriers and entering host tissues.
by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Mark Smith is a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-founder of OpenBiome, a nonprofit organization focused on expanding safe access to fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT).
by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Kenya Honda of the School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan, spoke at the Keystone Symposium in March, 2015.
