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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

The science behind Bill Gates’ vision: Will next-generation sequencing realistically contribute to solving the problem of child undernutrition?

In a recent lecture at the University of Cambridge, Bill Gates argued that the key to solving child malnutrition, one of the biggest global contributors to inequity, lies in deeper understanding of the gut microbiome. Much microbiome research has focussed on the influence of the gut microbiome on...

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Shallow Shotgun Sequencing: A Primer

It is common for microbiome researchers to struggle over the choice between 16S sequencing or shotgun metagenome sequencing (SMS) for their study. When deciding which sequencing technique to use, it is essential to consider a number of factors including the research question, study design and cost....

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