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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello.
Special guest: Rob Knight
Vincent meets up with Rob Knight to talk about the technology that has fueled his drive to sequence the Earth and its inhabitants.
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Links for this episode
- Microbes en masse (Nature)
- Obesity alters gut microbial ecology (PNAS)
- Sharing microbiome with dogs (eLife)
- Earth microbiome project (BMC Biology)
- Stability of gut micobiota (Science)
- Gut microbes and the brain (J Neurosci)
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