マイクロバイオーム研究開発の最前線（仮）

2018年1月25日（木）講演 13:30-18:30　懇親会 18:30-20:00

＠日本橋ライフサイエンスハブ

LINK-Jは、カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校（UC San Diego）よりロブ・ナイト教授をお招きし、マイクロバイオームをテーマとしたシンポジウムを開催します。本シンポジウムでは、ロブ・ナイト教授の他、マイクロバイオーム・イノベーション・センターエグゼクティブディレクターのサンドリン・ミラー＝モンゴメリー博士、マイクロバイオームの日本人研究者によるプレゼンテーションを予定しています。今回がロブ・ナイト教授の日本での初講演となりますので、この機会に是非ご参加ください。なお、申込は近日中にオープン予定です。

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カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校ロブ・ナイト教授招聘講演会

【問合せ先】LINK-J（担当：清本・小野瀬）　　　　　 E-mail:contact@link-j.org

TEL:03-3241-4911

ロブ・ナイト教授プロフィール

サンドリン・ミラー＝モンゴメリー博士プロフィール

Dr. Miller-Montgomery is the executive director of the Center for

Microbiome Innovation. She leads a team focused on expanding industry

and academic collaborations in the field of microbiome research. She

comes directly from industry and has worked in large biotech and

multinational companies as well as start-ups. Most recently, she was

leading MO BIO Labs, a biotech focused on nucleic acid purification.

Center for Microbiome Innovation

http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/microbiome/

Rob Knight is the founding Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and Professor of Pediatrics and Computer

Science & Engineering at UC San Diego. Before that, he was Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Computer

Science in the BioFrontiers Institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an HHMI Early Career Scientist. He is

a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Microbiology.

He received the 2017 Massry Prize for his microbiome research. In 2015 he received the Vilceck Prize in Creative

Promise for the Life Sciences. He is the author of “Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes” (Simon &

Schuster, 2015), coauthor of “Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child’ s Developing Immune System (St.

Martin’ s Press, 2017) and spoke at TED in 2014. His lab has produced many of the software tools and laboratory

techniques that enabled high-throughput microbiome science, including the QIIME pipeline (cited ~8000 times as of

this writing) and UniFrac (cited ~5000 times). He is co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project, the American Gut

Project, and the company Biota, Inc., which uses DNA from microbes in the subsurface to guide oilfield decisions. His

work has linked microbes to a range of health conditions including obesity and inflammatory bowel disease, has

enhanced our understanding of microbes in environments ranging from the oceans to the tundra, and made

high-throughput sequencing techniques accessible to thousands of researchers around the world. Dr. Knight can be

followed on Twitter (@knightlabnews) or on his web site http://knightlab.ucsd.edu/.