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Rapid High-throughput Cultivation of Diverse and Rare Bacteria from the Human Gut Microbiome

Being able to parse the full complexity of communities in the Human Gut Microbiome requires not just knowing which strains are present but also determining what each constituent strain does and how they interact with each other, their host and environment.  Today’s microbiology workflow leans heavily on labor-intensive, low-throughput tools such as Petri dishes and broth cultures, that are not capable of detecting these nuances because they lack the scale and level of throughput needed for this level of analysis.  New cost-effective, high-throughput tools for microbial isolation and cultivation can facilitate this level of analysis of thousands of strains at once while simultaneously preserving them in living form for functional characterization.

A second requirement for this level of analysis is the need to assemble a robust isolate library that is representative of the microbial community from which they are derived. Rare and/or slow-growing species can be missed during cultivation using petri dishes. Although they may comprise only a small percentage of the overall mix of microbes, rare and/or slow-growing species can be key players in maintaining the overall equilibrium of a community and may even be keystone species.


Dr. Jewell will discuss one method of assembling such a robust isolate community as compared to standard low-throughput tools and how being able to scale the generation of diverse isolate libraries that includes rare species is critical to accelerate microbiome-level insights for research and product development.

Presenter:

Talia Jewell, Ph.D., Group Lead, Microbiology, GALT, Inc.

Dr. Jewell received her Ph.D. at University of California, Davis, in Microbiology and did her postdoctoral research at San Francisco State University and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked on development of in vitro diagnostic platforms for infectious disease. She currently leads development of the Prospector platform for high-throughput microbial cultivation and isolation from the human gut microbiome at GALT.

Date: September 9, 2020

Time: 1:00 pm Central Daylight 

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