Speaker
Rob Knight, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, USA
![Rob Knight](_common/updateable/img/speakers/bio-Knight.jpg)
Rob Knight is the Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, where he is a Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering. He co-founded the Earth Microbiome Project, and the American Gut Project, which is among the largest crowdfunded science projects of any kind to date. He has spoken at TED and written over 700 scientific articles. He won the 2017 Massry Prize, often considered a predictor of the Nobel. His work combines microbiology, DNA sequencing, ecology and computer science to understand the vast numbers of microbes that inhabit our bodies and our planet.
Homepage: https://knightlab.ucsd.edu/
Twitter: @knightlabnews
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