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1. Introduction
2. Topics
3. The human microbiota - first work
4. Cultivation of microbiota
5. Benefits derived from our microbiota
6. Why interest in human microbiome?
7. "Community as pathogen"
8. Indigenous microbiota - clinical problems
9. Microbial community resilience and disease
10. Phylogenetic surveys
11. The tree of life
12. Patterns of microbial diversity in the human body
13. The tree of life - the bacterial domain
14. The bacterial domain within the human colon
15. Site-specific distributions of bacterial phyla
16. Diversity of the human skin microbiome
17. Skin microenvironments
18. Ecological boundaries: features
19. Rarefaction curves (1)
20. Rarefaction curves (2)
21. Number of species/strains seen in 3 individuals
22. Human distal gut bacterial diversity
23. Patterns of diversity within the human body
24. Features of microbial diversity - mammals (1)
25. Variability between and within subjects
26. Diversity patterns among 12 obese individuals
27. Diversity in the first year of life (1)
28. Diversity in the first year of life (2)
29. Early days: evidence of opportunistic exposures
30. Later days: emergence of individuality
31. Features of microbial diversity - mammals (2)
32. Functional capacity in the human gut
33. Families have more functionally similar microbiome
34. Early metagenomic analysis of gut microbiome
35. Methanogenesis and disease
36. Model of oral anaerobic community interactions
37. Challenges and future directions
38. Challenges
39. Viruses outnumber bacteria
40. The "long tail"
41. The rare and uncultivated
42. Single cell genomics
43. Conclusions
44. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Benefits derived from our microbiota
• Clinical problems associated with the indigenous microbiota
• Degradation of fitness landscape
• Phylogenetic surveys
• Patterns of microbial diversity in the human body
• Site-specific distributions of bacterial phyla in healthy humans
• Skin microenvironments
• Ecological boundaries
• Rarefaction curves
• What are the factors that regulate or restrict human indigenous microbial diversity?
• What are the features of early microbial colonization in the human body?
• Early days: evidence of opportunistic exposures
• Later days: emergence of individuality
• Features of indigenous microbial diversity in mammals
• Families have more functionally similar microbiomes
• Challenges and future directions

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Series:

• Microbiota
• Molecular Basis of Bacterial Infection

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Microbiology

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Publication History

• Published on October 29, 2009
• Updated on August 11, 2010

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. David Relman has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.