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Completing darwin s quest discovering the dark matter of biology with larry smarr and rob knight
Rob Knight (born 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a professor at the University of California, San Diego and the co-founder of the American Gut Project. he is also a co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project. His lab's research involves the development of laboratory and computational techniques to characterize the microbiomes of humans, animals, and the environment.
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- Completing darwin s quest discovering the dark matter of biology with larry smarr and rob knight
- Rob knight how our microbes make us who we are
- American Gut Project
- References
Knight completed a BSc in biochemistry at the University of Otago and a PhD at Princeton University on the Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code in 2001. Until 2014, he was a professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder.
He did an IAmA on reddit and also taught a microbiome course on Coursera. He gave a TED Talk in 2014 on the role microbes play on our health. Later this idea was expanded into the book Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes, written with science journalist Brendan Buhler and published by Simon & Schuster.
In 2015, he received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.
Rob knight how our microbes make us who we are
American Gut Project
The American Gut Project is the world's largest crowdfunded and crowdsourced scientific research project. The project aims to characterize the human microbiome. Participants make a monetary contribution and submit personal microbiome samples, and receive information about their microbiomes.