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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Jonathan Eisen of the University of California of Davis answers questions about the human ecosystem, which includes a microbial community that operates as a virtual organ.

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