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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 uBiome. uBiome is a project that connects citizens to scientists in an attempt to better understand the microbiome.
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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)
Operational taxonomic unit