Immunology and gut microbiotica: the assesment of microbial inflammation potential through the development of a metagenome analytic framework. KU Leuven
Summary
More than eighty years after the isolation of the first gastrointestinal bacterium in 1885, research on the microbes inside our body finally took off. Since then, improvements in culturing techniques paved the way for the exploration of the complex microbial community inside our guts. In the last decades, the rapid development of sequencing approaches, allowing the identification of our microbial companions based on their DNA, ...