MCB 4320C Lecture 5: Lecture 5
19 Jan 2019
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Introduction to the human microbiome the primary application for the technologies described in this course. Appreciate the history of the study of the microbiome something embraced strongly before the dawn of the antibiotic era, then resurges more than 50 years later. Appreciate the depth and breadth of microbial diversity in the human microbiome. Appreciate that all eukaryotes have a microbiome. Know the purpose and scope of the human microbiome project. Know the terms microbiome, probiotic, and prebiotic. The collection of microorganisms found on, or within, any eukaryote. Ilyich (elie) metchnikoff, shared the 1908 nobel prize in physiology or. Born in 1845 in kharkoff, russia(now ukraine) Died in paris in 1916 nobel prize was for his discovery of cellular immunity. He discovered mobile cells in daphnia that attacked and consumed bacterial cells. considered the father of immunology. Autotoxins produced in the colon by putrefactive bacteria converted phagocytes from protectors against infection to destroyers of healthy cells.
