Bacteriophages, the Microbiome, and Human Health—David Pride—Associate Director of Microbiology, Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, UC San Diego

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Dr. Price shares his insight and information on a range of fascinating topics, including the following:

How microbiota and viruses interact
How oral microbes in mice have been shown to produce different phenotypes
What purpose is served by each of the two separate lifestyles carried out by viruses in bacteria
Whether or not viruses are considered to be alive, and whether or not it matters for Dr. Pride's research aims
How bacteriophages might function as antibiotic alternatives

The human virome is the collection of all of the viruses in and on the surface of the body. There are trillions of these viruses, and many of them are bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria. Over the past 15 years or so, there has been a lot of research and effort in trying to understand the function of microbes in the body and how they relate to states of health and disease.

At UC San Diego, Associate Director of Microbiology and Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, David Pride, is focused specifically on trying to understand how to utilize bacteriophages in a way that will improve human health.

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1:09.2	I have David Pride, I is Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine at UC San Diego, also Associate Director of Microbiology.
1:17.0	And David, thank you for coming. How you doing today?
1:20.0	I'm doing well, thanks. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, it looks like you have tons of
1:24.6	credentials. So instead of going through all of them, I'd like to ask you what what's your
1:28.9	current research focus right now and perhaps you can talk about that. So we've got two sort of
1:34.1	separate focuses which I think kind of blend together well. One is we're
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