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________________________ Kevin is getting his PhD in Immunology studying the signaling networks down stream of Toll-like Receptors (TLRs). He thinks the immune system is mostly useless in the face of pathogenic microbes, which causes no small amount of existential angst.

One day, he would like to be a white-bearded professor perched high in the ivory tower of academia, but this dream is untenable since he's genetically incapable of growing facial hair.

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We beasties are members of a graduate student orgnaization called Science in the News. SITN's mission is to communicate science to a wider audience. To that end, we host a lecture series every fall, as well as science cafe's, science fairs and high-school out reach.

The fall lecture series is on vimeo

Our Microbial Organ

Category: Commensals • Microbiology • Pathogens • SITN
Posted on: November 29, 2010 3:00 PM, by Kevin

Did you know that bacteria make up 90% of the cells in your body? That they make up ~5% of your mass? That they colonize you at the moment of birth and are different if you were born via c-section than if you were born naturally?

All this and more in the SITN production, "Our Microbial Organ: The good and bad bugs of the gut." And who's that handsom devil presenting (at least the first part)? Why, it's me!

Part 1: Living in a microbial world