Did you know that you and in fact all living organisms collaborate with millions of tiny microbes every day? And that these microbes are essential for all living beings? Microbes such as bacteria, viruses and fungi are everywhere. In your gut, on your skin, in your sourdough, on your kitchen table and all your surroundings. These microbes influence your daily life and health in ways that researchers are only just starting to realise and investigate. In this podcast series Professor Tom Gilbert and editor and PhD Christina Noer talk with experts to explore these remarkable relations.
Your hosts are PhD Christina Lehmkuhl Noer and Professor Tom Gilbert. Sound and recording by Christian Grimes Schmidt from Centre for Online and Blended Learning and editing by Christina Lehmkuhl Noer and Ella Zoe Lattenkamp.
The Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and this podcast are generously funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
00:00:03 Tom Gilbert
Did you know that you and in fact probably all living organisms collaborate with millions of tiny microbes every day?
00:00:11 Tom Gilbert
And that these microbes are essential for probably all living beings.
00:00:17 Christina Lehmkuhl Noer
Microbes such as bacteria, viruses and fungi are everywhere.
00:00:23 Christina Lehmkuhl Noer
There, in your gut, on your skin, in your sourdough, and on your kitchen table, and in all of your surroundings. These microbes influence your daily life and health in ways that researchers are only just starting to realize and investigate.
00:00:40 Christina Lehmkuhl Noer
So, in this podcast, we will talk with experts to explore these remarkable relations.
00:00:48 Morten Tønsberg Limborg
These microbes are actually very important for the host in providing a lot of functions that help increase their health and so on.
00:00:56 Henrik Munch Roager
Children, they encounter a lot of their bacteria and microorganisms through their gastrointestinal system, and that's very important for educating the children's immune system.
00:01:09 Henrik Munch Roager
It's actually quite important what kind of microbiome you get and establish through the first years of life, because that's what you're stuck with.
00:01:18 Sandra Breum Andersen
So, one of the neat things about Helicobacter is when you do the phylogeny of the bacteria, you can track our movement out of Africa.
00:01:28 Tom Gilbert
So, my name's Professor Tom Gilbert. I'm the director of the Centre for Evolutionary Hologenomics in Copenhagen, which is a research center where my colleagues and I are fascinated about how host animals like us coexist and collaborate with their tiny microbial passengers.
00:01:46 Christina Lehmkuhl Noer
And I'm Tom's co-host and editor, Christina Noer and our mission is to share our love and passion for microbial connections.