Jonathan Eisen

Who are “Me, Myself and Us?”

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About Jonathan Eisen

A pioneer in the study of microbial diversity, Dr. Jonathan Eisen focuses on the development and use of high-throughput laboratory and computational methods to study microbes by analyzing their genomes. Eisen’s researches communities of microbes and how they provide new functions – to each other or to a host.

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Not all microbes are pathogens. As Jonathan Eisen of the University of California of Davis points out, the health of our microbiome is vital to protecting us from disease.

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