"The microbial worlds inside us", Dr. Libusha Kelley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The microbes that live in our body influence human health. My lab studies how differences in the microbial communities between individuals can affect how we process food and how we respond to drugs. We ask why the same perturbation to the microbiome, for example, exposure to a drug or an inflammatory condition, can lead to different outcomes in different individuals.
Dr. Kelly is with the Departments of Systems & Computational Biology and Microbiology & Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

This talk is part of the George B. Saul II Lectures in Biology. Dr. Kelly will also give a science talk on Friday, Oct. 27 at 12:30pm (MBH 216) entitled: “The microbial ecology of xenobiotic metabolism”. See www.middlebury.edu/academics/bio for more information.