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Dr. Ruairi Robertson is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. He has 10 years of hands-on experience in microbiome research. His current work focuses on the influence of the early-life gut microbiome on child growth and immunity.

Entries by Ruairi Robertson, PhD

Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 7 Douglas Kwon

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Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 6 Jens Walter and Alan Walker

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Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 5 Carlotta Ronda

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Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 4 Benoit Chassaing

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Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 3 with Meghan Azad

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Biomes Podcast Show Notes: Season 3 Episode 2 with Jotham Suez

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Long-read vs short-read sequencing in microbiome research

Microbiome research relies heavily on DNA sequencing to identify and characterize microbes within a particular environment. For a long-time, this has primarily involved massive sequencing using short-reads (150-300 bases); however, recent developments in DNA sequencing have led to sequencing of...

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What is a strain? Strain-level identification in microbiome analyses

Microbiome research has revealed the huge microbial diversity within the human body and the environment. The human gut alone contains thousands of species of bacteria, not to mention other microbes such as fungi and archaea. Each of these species can have a different function within the human body...

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Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing Guide

Microbiome research relies on accurate identification and classification of thousands of microbial species in a single biological sample. To date, this has largely been conducted using amplicon sequencing, such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing for the identification of bacteria and archaea. However,...

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16S rRNA Gene Sequencing vs. Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing

Are you a company, lab or researcher planning a new microbiome study?  If so, you are probably considering whether to conduct 16S rRNA gene sequencing or shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Although 16S rRNA gene sequencing has been more commonly used for microbiome studies to date, shotgun metagenomics...

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