HMP2010-09-01
Day 2 of the Human #Microbiome Research Conference in St. Louis http://bit.ly/b6zOOF - microblog is at http://bit.ly/cZwZBV #HMP2010
2010-09-01 21:58:36Also check out #HMP2010 on the microblog at http://futureofgenomicsblog.org/HMP/ (free registration required) http://fb.me/wHVNh2zo
2010-09-01 23:08:36Up first Floyd Dewhirst from the Forsyth Institute on the human oral #microbiome #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:02:38Dewhirst: #Microbiome term was coined by Joshua Lederberg #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:05:43Dewhirst: problems with oral #microbiome research - no naming scheme for 16S rRNA phylotypes, ltd genome info for most oral bact #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:11:44Dewhirst: found 65% of oral microbes is culturable (higher than gut and other sites) and that oral #microbiome is quite diverse #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:17:32Dewhirst: many strains require cross streaking with other organisms #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:22:01Dewhirst: found wheat, nicotine, tapioca and other food stuff found when sampling oral cavity #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:23:46Dewhirst: 6.7 billion microbes in oral cavity but since it's an open environment, probably far more #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:24:48Dewhirst: Next big challenge - to figure out what these organisms and doing and how interacting #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:29:31Floyd Dewhirst opens the day with the Human Oral Microbiome #hmp2010 he has a recent paper in DATABASE: http://bit.ly/bBZX8l
2010-09-01 22:13:41#HMP2010 Dewhirst: 40-60 years 4 formal taxonomic names to catch up to the isolates we have; me-Intelligent Designer, taxonomy makes me nuts
2010-09-01 22:13:43#HMP2010 Dewhirst-Most oral bacteria CAN be grown; me: re. "99% of bacteria can't be grown"; on LB yes, but have some pride & work harder
2010-09-01 22:22:54#HMP2010 I've always like the HOMD site http://tinyurl.com/296ra6q
2010-09-01 22:27:19#HMP2010 Toothyology is very important, and I enjoy looking at those microbiome data, but the disease state REALLY grosses me out
2010-09-01 22:44:18Next up - Susan Haake from UCLA on molecular signature of periodontitis metagenome #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:31:23Haake: shout out to @TheGenomeCenter's Makedonka Mitreva http://bit.ly/bY0f5M on microbiome analyses #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:33:02Haake: there is a core #microbiome in the oral cavity #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:38:42Haake: tooth and tissue of mouth have different microbial communities #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:42:12Haake: periodontal treatment causes microbial shift in oral cavity #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:52:51Microblogging Susan Haake's talk on FriendFeed http://ff.im/q2HxM #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:40:45#HMP2010 Haake: in mouth, tissue and hard surfaces cluster apart in terms of community structure
2010-09-01 22:45:15#HMP2010 Didn't know periodontitis can lead to low birth weight?!? More toothyology!
2010-09-01 22:49:29Next talk Jeff Gordon from @wustl on the marriage of comparative metagenomics and gnotobiotics #HMP2010
2010-09-01 22:59:36Jeff Gordon: gnotobiology: mice and other orgs raised under germ-free conditions #HMP2010
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