Human postnatal development is the process of growth and development of our ‘human’ organs. As we come to appreciate how our microbial communities are assembled following birth, there is an opportunity to determine how this facet of our developmental biology is related to the health of infants and children, as well as to the risk for and manifestations of disorders that produce abnormal growth. In this presentation, biologist and professor Jeffrey I. Gordon will discuss his hypothesis that perturbations in the normal development of the gut microbiome (the collection of microbes that reside in the human gut) are causally related to childhood undernutrition – a devastating global health problem with long-term effects remaining resistant to current therapeutic interventions.
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