Head over to Duke Research Blog and check out a podcast featuring Lawrence David, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), molecular genetics and microbiology and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences. Dr. David is a School of Medicine Partnership Hire.
David recently appeared on the Radio In Vivo program and talked about his research on the human gut's microbial biodiversity and its interactions with infections, the immune system and our diets.
"Our guts are probably some of the world's most densely colonized microbial communities," David told host Ernie Hood. It's a paradise really, with a stead supply of nutrients, constant climate, no sunlight, "and only one way in and out." Learn more here.