Episode 38: Jessica Richman and William Ludington on uBiome

This week Zach and Kelly talk to Jessica Richman, a PhD student at Oxford University, and Dr. William Ludington, the Bowes Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, about uBiomeuBiome is a project that connects citizens to scientists in an attempt to better understand the microbiome.

Links

Microbiome

Candida albicans (yeast that is part of the microbiome)

Vagus nerve

Toxoplasma gondii

Episode 3: Bacteria, Butts, and Brains (a previous Weekly Weinersmith episode on the microbiome)

Clostridium difficile

Operational taxonomic unit

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