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- Microbiota: Agents for Health and Disease
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1. Introduction to microbiota: agents for health and disease
- Prof. B. Brett Finlay
- The Human Microbiota
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2. The human microbiome project
- Prof. George Weinstock
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3. The human indigenous microbiota
- Prof. David Relman
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4. Gut microbiota, chronic inflammation and metabolic syndrome
- Prof. Andrew Gewirtz
- Microbiota and Disease
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5. Role of the microbiota in asthma
- Prof. B. Brett Finlay
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6. Disappearing microbiota and human metabolic health
- Prof. Martin Blaser
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8. Gram+ bacterial microbiota - Yin & Yang of infectious disease
- Prof. P. Patrick Cleary
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9. Salmonella diarrhea: contributions from the microbiota, the pathogen and the host
- Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
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11. Microbiota and oral disease
- Prof. Dennis Cvitkovitch
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12. Microbiota and inflammatory bowel disease
- Prof. Janet Jansson
- Host Responses
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13. The role of the enteric microbiota in T cell differentiation
- Prof. Dan Littman
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15. Intestinal microbiota and the brain-gut axis
- Prof. Stephen Collins
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16. Enteric pathogens-microbiota-host inter-kingdom chemical interactions
- Prof. Vanessa Sperandio
- Preventatives and Therapeutics
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17. Probiotics
- Dr. Gregor Reid
- Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
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18. A new frontier in biology: deciphering the molecular language of symbiosis
- Prof. Margaret McFall-Ngai
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19. Probiotics and prebiotics
- Prof. Glenn Gibson
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Composition of the human body
- Our second genome
- Where our microbiome came from
- Why is the microbiome important
- Ecological diseases from our microbiome
- What is a microbial community
- DNA sequencing technology through time
- Decreases in cost make it affordable
- Next generation sequencing instruments
- How to study the human microbiome
- Components of the NIH HMP
- Healthy microbiome characterization
- Body sites being sampled
- 16S amplicons for 454 sequencing
- Analysis of 18 subjects
- Oral specimens
- Diversity in different body habitats
- Variable diversity between individuals - stool
- Variable diversity between individuals - vagina
- Shotgun metagenomic sequencing
- Stability of the gut microbiome
- Kingdoms found in metagenomic reads
- Viruses in healthy people
- Persistent infection in healthy subjects
- Metabolic pathway distribution
- Demonstration projects
- Virome analysis
- Febrile children study
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- 16S RNA metagenomic analysis - healthy baby
- Conclusions
- Thank you
Topics Covered
- The microbial genome, our "second genome"
- Where did our microbiome come from?
- Ecological diseases from our microbiome
- How to study the human microbiome
- Shotgun metagenomic sequencing
- The gut microbiome
- Viruses and persistent infection in healthy people
- Metabolic pathway distribution
- Virome analysis
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Talk Citation
Weinstock, G. (2011, September 27). The human microbiome project [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved March 13, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/GFOT9303.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on September 27, 2011
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. George Weinstock has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.