Café Scientifique - Join us for another exciting Virtual Café Scientifique featuring Dr. Michael Rischbach!

The microbiome is a mess: hundreds of microbial species that vary tremendously from one person to the next. This talk will focus on new technologies that are enabling us to gain control over the microbiome and understand how it works, with an emphasis on why the microbiome contributes to common diseases and how it can be put to work to treat disease.

Dr. Michael Fischbach

Dr. Michael Fischbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University, an institute scholar of the Stanford ChEM-H institute, and the director of the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative. His research is centered around learning how the microbiome works, with a focus on building highly complex microbial communities from scratch and manipulating them with precise genetic tools.

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