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Dr. Sean Gibbons joins Dr. Buck Joffrey for a podcast interview to discuss the complexities of the gut microbiome, its evolution, and its significant role in health and longevity. Gibbons explains how our microbiome is established at birth, how it changes throughout life, and the impact of diet and lifestyle on its composition. The discussion also covers the challenges of modifying the microbiome, the potential of precision nutrition, and the emerging field of fecal transplants.

Using microbial community-scale metabolic models, ISB’s Gibbons Lab can analyze an individual’s gut microbiome data and predict the colonization risk of Clostridioides difficile. In an interview, Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons discussed the implications of this research.

This news story details work out of ISB’s Gibbons Lab – the developtment of personalized modeling framework that forecasts C. diff colonization risk based on an individual’s unique gut microbiome. The team demonstrated how these models can also test targeted probiotic therapies designed to suppress C. diff growth before it turns deadly.

Published research out of ISB’s Gibbons Lab is highlighted in this story, showing that pooping too often or too rarely are both associated with different underlying health issues.

How does food DNA impact the human body? In what ways do ecological communities in the gut change and adapt to individual people over time? In this podcast episode, Dr. Sean Gibbons discusses a breakthrough method that analyzes food-derived DNA in fecal metagenomes – and what this means for human health.

In this deep-dive episode, Matt Kaberlein sits down with Sean Gibbons, one of the leading researchers in human microbiome science, to explore the complexity, nuance, and emerging applications of gut microbiome research. They cover both foundational and cutting-edge topics.