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Rob Knight, Ph.D.

Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research at Rady Children's Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Computer Science & Engineering

Affiliations
  • University of California, San Diego
Website
iem.ucsd.edu/researchers/people/profiles/rob-knight.html

Knight is the founding director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and a professor of pediatrics, bioengineering, and computer science & engineering at UC San Diego, where he is also the Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research. Knight’s lab has produced many of the software tools and laboratory techniques that enabled high-throughput microbiome science, including QIIME and UniFrac. His work has linked microbes to a range of health conditions, enhanced our understanding of microbes in many environments, and made high-throughput sequencing accessible to thousands of researchers around the world.

Featuring Rob Knight

Gut Microbiota Probiotics Concept

New Research Clarifies Connection Between Autism and the Microbiome

Events

From the Human Microbiome Project to the Earth Microbiome Project

Lecture

February 8, 2023

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Rob Knight

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