Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome 

Introduction

Welcome to the Course

What are Microbes?

Interview: Jack Gilbert

Interview: Valerie McKenzie

The Human Microbiome

Where Do You Get Your Microbes?

Web interview: Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Web interview: Elizabeth Costello

Rob's Module 1 wrap-up

About This Course

Assignments

Part 1: You and Your Gut

Introduction to Microbes and the Human Microbiome

How we study the microbiome: Introduction

The history of studying microbes with Norm Pace

Basics of high-throughput DNA sequencing

Demo: Tour of the Knight Lab

'Omics' and other useful technologies

Interview: Luke Thompson

Web interview: Janet Jansson

Web interview: Pieter Dorrestein

Rob's Module 2 wrap-up

Assignments

Part 1: You and Your Gut (continued)

Studying the Microbiome

How do we identify a microbe?

Web interview: Philip Hugenholtz

Basics of alpha-diversity with fuzzy microbe demo

Beta-diversity, and visualizing differences

Demo: EMPeror, a QIIME visualization tool

Web interview: Gregory Caporaso

Rob's Week 3 wrap-up

Assignments

Part 1: You and Your Gut (continued)

Making Sense Out of Microbial Data

Impact of diet and age on the gut microbiota

Obesity and the gut microbiota

Human microbiome and gut disease

Interview: On location in Tanzania with Martin Blaser

Interview: On location in Tanzania with Jeff Leach

Interview: On location in Tanzania with Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Manipulating the microbiome through fecal transplants

Rob's Module 4 wrap-up

Assignments

The Human Gut Microbiome and Your Health

Gut microbiota interactions with the immune system

Gut microbiota, autoimmune diseases, and allergies

Web interview: Sarkis Mazmanian

Interview: Cathy Lozupone

The gut-brain axis

Post-mortem human microbiome

Zech on machine learning

Web interview: Sibyl Bucheli

Web interview: David Carter

Web interview: Charlotte Carter

Rob's Module 5 wrap-up

Assignments

Gut Microbe-Host Interactions: Beyond Nutrition

The American Gut Project and crowd-funding

Interview: Tom Cech

Collecting samples

Interview: Daniel McDonald

Michael Pollan vs. Jeff Leach: American Gut results explained

Web interview: Michael Pollan

Comparing the American Gut to other populations

Rob's Module 6 wrap-up and thank you's

Assignments

Closing Remarks

Acknowledgements

Post-Course Survey

What's in the American Gut