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Our Microbial Organ – The Good and Bad Bugs of the Human Gut

Ever since coming to Harvard, I’ve been involved with a graduate student group called “Science in the News.” At SITN, the goal is to bring the fascination with scientists that graduate students have to a wider audience, and the flagship effort of the group is a series of lectures held every Autumn and Spring that [...]

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Ever since coming to Harvard, I've been involved with a graduate student group called "Science in the News." At SITN, the goal is to bring the fascination with scientists that graduate students have to a wider audience, and the flagship effort of the group is a series of lectures held every Autumn and Spring that presents complex scientific topics for a general audience. A few years ago, we started filming these lectures, and I just stumbled across the video of a lecture I was a part of that seems relevant for this blog.

Take a look, and let me know what you think:

Part One - Living in a Microbial World (presented by me!)


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2010 7.1 Our Microbial Organ, Part I: Living in a Microbial World from Science in the News on Vimeo.

 

Part 2 - The Gut and its Inhabitants (presented by Nadia Cohen)

2010 7.2 Our Microbial Organ, Part II: The Gut and Its Inhabitants from Science in the News on Vimeo.

 

Part 3 - Bacterial Populations - How We Study Them and How We Use Them (presented by Kyle Perry)

2010 7.3 Our Microbial Organ, Part III: Bacterial Populations - How We Study Them and How We Use Them from Science in the News on Vimeo.

Kevin Bonham is a Curriculum Fellow in the Microbiology and Immunobiology department at Harvard Medical school. He received his PhD from Harvard, where he studied how the cells of the immune system detect the presence of infectious microbes. Find him on Google+, Reddit.

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