Dna Today: A Genetics Podcast

Joining me on this episode is Bibaswan Ghoshal. He is a Senior Bioinformatician at the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Health System in Toronto. He has his Master’s of Science in Medicine and finishing his PhD in Bioinformatics, Animal Microbiome and Agriculture from the University of Alberta. On this episode we discuss…The number of microbes in inside us and how they help usFactors/technology that impacted the start of this new fieldDifferences between studying the human microbiome and genomeTechniques/technologies used to study the microbiomeHuman Microbiome ProjectHealthy microbiomesFactors that affect microbiomesVariations between people’s microbiomesMicrobiome researchRole of a bioinformatics analyst in microbiome research Learn more about the microbiome through the University of Utah’s free interactive modules. You can follow Bibaswan on Twitter @bibaswanghoshal  and read his blog at worldofbiba.wordpress.com. Check out the books Bibaswan recommends during the episode: Brain M