Abigail Armstrong, PhD, Discusses the Human Microbiome

Описание: The fourth webinar in The Center for Excellence in Education's (CEE) new monthly series of free "The Square Root of STEM" webinars, "The World Inside Us: Microbiomes & Human Health" was held on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. A featured guest was Abigail Armstrong, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Martin Blaser at Rutgers University studying the role of the human microbiome on health.

Abigail received a PhD in microbiology from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus performing her dissertation work on the role of the gut microbiome in people living with HIV in the lab of Dr. Catherine Lozupone and a BS in Biology from Calvin University performing her thesis work creating computation methods for microbial community mass spectrometry in the lab of Dr. John Wertz. Abigail’s work is focused utilizing existing and creating new computational tools to better understand the human microbiome with the larger system of the human body. She is passionate about communicating scientific findings and resources both between conventional bench scientists and computational scientists and to the general public.

How do microbes affect human body systems and our health? What’s an oral microbiome? What bacteria live in our gastrointestinal tract? What’s the difference between pathogenic and commensal organisms? Join us on an exploration of how STEM topics and skills intersect with our modern lives.

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