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Everyone can help further the microbiome field simply by learning more and telling someone else what you learned.
Ready to learn? Get microbiome news and CMIT event invitations straight to your inbox through our mailing list and get started today with resources available on the internet and in the popular press.
Here are a few that we like:
Watch a Video
Friends with benefits: Microbes, Diet & Me
Eric Alm, PhD and Tim Spector, MD
Boston Museum of Science
How our microbes make us who we are
Rob Knight, University of California San Diego
TED Talk
How bacteria “talk”
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University
Antibiotic resistance and what we can do about it
Maryn McKenna, Independent journalist and Author
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Dan Knights, University of Minnesota
TEDMED
Meet your microbes
Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis
How the food you eat affects your gut
Shilpa Ravella
TEDEd
You are your microbes
Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin
TEDEd
Serious Science
Tim Spector, King’s College, London, U.K., Microbiome and Diet
Read a Popular Press Article
New Scientist
- I’m traveling the world to collect poo for the sake of humankind
- Is your microbiome making you sick?
- We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life
The Atlantic
- Treating disease by nudging the microbes inside us
- Just months of American Life change the microbiome
- A grand unified theory of unhealthy microbiomes
The New York Times
- Unlocking the secrets of the microbiome
- The germs in you gut are talking to your brain. Scientists want to know what they’re saying
- There is no healthy microbiome
Time
- How the microbiome might predict diabetes, premature birth and gut diseases
- Fecal transplant pills could become a new cutting-edge treatment for infections
- Parkinson’s disease may be traced to gut bacteria
- How gut bacteria might predict belly fat
Read a Book
The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat Paperback
Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes (TED Books)
by Rob Knight (Author), Brendan Buhler (Contributor)
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
by Giulia Enders (Author), Jill Enders (Illustrator)
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong