Friday Lecture Series
Friday, February 19
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
David A. Relman, M.D.
Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor,
Department of Medicine,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Stanford University
The Human Microbiome Across Space and Time
Recommended Readings
Empirical Article
DiGiulio, D. B., Callahan, B. J., McMurdie, P. J., Costello, E. K., Lyell, D. J., Robaczewska, A., … & Stevenson, D. K. (2015). Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(35), 11060-11065. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502875112.
Hoy, Y. E., Bik, E. M., Lawley, T. D., Holmes, S. P., Monack, D. M., Theriot, J. A., & Relman, D. A. (2015). Variation in taxonomic composition of the fecal microbiota in an inbred mouse strain across individuals and time. PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0142825. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142825.
Lin, A., Bik, E. M., Costello, E. K., Dethlefsen, L., Haque, R., Relman, D. A., & Singh, U. (2013). Distinct distal gut microbiome diversity and composition in healthy children from Bangladesh and the United States. PLOS ONE, 8(1), e53838. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053838.
Review Paper
Costello, E. K., Stagaman, K., Dethlefsen, L., Bohannan, B. J., & Relman, D. A. (2012). The application of ecological theory toward an understanding of the human microbiome. Science, 336(6086), 1255-1262. doi: 10.1126/science.1224203.
