[bioundgrd] FW: MIT Microbiome Club - Dr. Slava Epstein: Microbial Stem Cells Hypothesis

[Joshua Stone]

From: Jared Scott Kehe <jkehe at mit.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 11:47 AM
Subject: MIT Microbiome Club - Dr. Slava Epstein: Microbial Stem Cells Hypothesis


MIT Microbiome Club
Seminar Series
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Dr. Slava Epstein:
Microbial Stem Cells Hypothesis

Tuesday, January 24 from 1:30–2:30pm in Monadnock Room, Broad Institute 2nd Floor

PLEASE RSVP ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE<https://www.facebook.com/events/1936185136609079/>

The MIT Microbiome Club will be hosting Dr. Slava Epstein, Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University.

Microbial “uncultivability”, or the Great Plate Count Anomaly, is arguably the oldest unresolved microbiological phenomenon. Most microbial species from the environment and human body are yet to be cultivated, which hampers progress in microbial biology and biotechnology. The current explanations of the nature of the phenomenon have not led to bridging the gap between the large number of species in nature and the limited richness of microbial collections. This suggests these explanations may not be general enough. Dr. Epstein proposes a new idea about why so many species resist cultivation in the lab, termed the Microbial Stem Cell Hypothesis. See more on the Facebook event page.<https://www.facebook.com/events/1936185136609079/>


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The MIT Microbiome Club, part of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, brings together inquisitive MIT undergrads, grad researchers, postdocs, faculty, and clinicians in the emerging field of microbiome studies and microbiome-based medicine. Learn more on our Facebook page.<https://www.facebook.com/pg/MITmicrobiomeclub/about/?ref=page_internal>
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