White House Promotes Our National Microbiome Initiative

The White House promotes a big joint private-government National Microbiome Initiative to fundamentally and comprehensively¹ study the tiniest of creatures. This is definitely not yesterday's biology.

Kudos to our President!  It's difficult to overstate how important a continuously fully funded national initiative to study these tiny creatures is, which have such dramatic impacts on a scale of piconewtons and picometers.

Video:

UPDATED 03/08/2017 and UPDATED 09/20/2016 UCTV, Follow Your Gut: Microbiomes and Aging with Rob Knight - Research on Aging (left; 03/08/2017) and UCTV, 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science: Rob Knight

 

UPDATED 06/21/2016 YoutubeNature, Innate lymphoid cells

summarizes years of dedicated research on cell signaling and pathways

Articles:

UPDATED 05/16/2016 Nature, White House goes big on microbiome research

Journals:

NCBI, Journal mBio
PlosOne, Microbiome

Participants:

UPDATED 11/16/2016 ArgonneNL, The Microbiome Center Understanding the human body as an ecosystem within an ecosystem!

UPDATED 05/21/2016 MayoClinic, Center for Individualized Medicine’s Microbiome Program
UPDATED 05/21/2016 UnivConn, Joins National Microbiome Initiative
UPDATED 05/21/2016 UnivMich, U-M joins new National Microbiome Initiative announced today at White House
PenState, New Penn State research initiative part of White House microbiome event
Berkeley Lab, M2B

UCSD, Center for Microbiome InnovationBerkeley Labs, Microbes-to-Biomes



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1. UPDATED 05/25/2016  Includes reproducibility of results.




Originally Published May 13, 2016; Last Updated March 08, 2017; Last Republished March 08, 2017: