Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, an Assistant Professor at Case Western University specializes in coaxing human cultured cells to differentiate and form tissues resembling the gastrointestinal tract, in order to study microbe-GI interactions.
Dr. Kim discusses his surprising discovery of how common immortalized cultured cells can differentiate and form something that resembles a gut-on-a-chip, how these guts-on-a-chip can be used to study diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, how the addition of a microbiome to the gut-on-a-chip allows the bacteria to retain diversity unlike in a test tube, how the gut-on-a-chip could be valuable for personalized medicine, and the things he misses about Texas since moving from there.
This episode was supported by Eezy Breezy Poke, an elegant at-home vaccine service.
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041: There’s a Germ in my Worm: Bacterial-driven Metamorphosis with Nick Shikuma
040: Public Health in the Time of Cholera: Enteric Disease Intervention with Christine Marie George
039: Let’s Veto Mosquitoes: Malaria with Gunnar Mair
038: Babbling Bacteria: A Discussion About Quorum Sensing with Marvin Whiteley
037: Coral Reefs in Crisis! A Discussion with Rebecca Vega-Thurber
036: Viruses from Heaven and Hell: A Discussion with Ken Stedman
035: Flip-flops and Surfboards made from Algae? Renewable algae-derived biomaterials with Steve Mayfield
034: Disease Expertise with the Big Cheese: CDC Deputy Director Anne Schuchat
033: Mr. CRISPR, Kevin Doxzen, Discusses the Revolutionary Gene Editing Technology
032: The Wrath of Maria: Puerto Rican Microbiologists Discuss Post-Hurricane Science
031: Content in Cement: Julie Maresca Discusses the Concrete Microbiome
030: Mycology Loquacity: Carol Kumamoto Gets Candid about Candida
029: Prevent What’s Preventable: Vaccine Preventable Diseases with Cherise Rohr-Allegrini
028: You Gotta Be Squidding Me! A Discussion with Ned Ruby
027: Do the Bugs in your Gut Cause Parkinson’s Disease? A Discussion with Sarkis Mazmanian
026: Bugs in Space! High School Students Send a Microbiology Experiment on the ISS
025: It’s a Fungal Jungle Out There! A Discussion with Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
024: Time for Lyme: A Discussion with Dr. Steve Norris
023: There’s Another Fungus Among Us! With Dr. Andrew Alspaugh
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