The gut microbiome - made up of trillions of microbes in the digestive tract - is vital for digestion and overall health. Diet and medication shape these microbial ecosystems, but the contribution of ...

Rob Knight wears many hats in his career, whether as a professor of pediatrics, bioengineering, computer science and engineering at UC San Diego in La Jolla, Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in microbiome ...

To pore through a list of Rob Knight’s publications is overwhelming. The topics jump from lake sediments to pulmonary hypertension, and they span the globe from the Tibeten Plateau to the Midwestern ...

Each year the ARCS Foundation, San Diego Chapter, a nonprofit organization led entirely by women, hosts a Scientist of the Year fundraiser to honor a preeminent local scientist. This year’s honoree, ...

A large rat study shows that gut microbiome composition is influenced not only by an individual’s genes but also by the genes ...

Rob Knight was named winner of a Creative Promise Prize in Biomedical Science for his groundbreaking research on microbial communities and the development of computational tools that honed the ...