Common wisdom - Lactobacilli indicative of good health
- Jonathan Eisen
Also common wisdom - growth of non indiginous organisms suppressed by Lactobacillus
- Jonathan Eisen
Vagina microbiome changes over time in part w/ changes in estrogen levels
- Jonathan Eisen
What he is studying - variation within and between women
- Jonathan Eisen
Example - 410 asymtomatic healthy women - four ethnic groups - self collected swabs - measured pH, history, and then did pyrosequencing of 16s
- Jonathan Eisen
Multiple kinds of core microbiomes among these women
- Jonathan Eisen
Suggests that there is strong host selection for which organisms are present - but not clear what the basis for this statement is
- Jonathan Eisen
Consistent w/ Walker's Driver Passenger Model (ecological model)_ which is smilar to keystone species model 0 and that here the keystone species are lactic acid bacteria
- Jonathan Eisen
Vaginal pH and microbial state varies by ethnic group -
- Jonathan Eisen
ok, i read that as "microphone"... nevermind.
- Christina Pikas
#NASMH meeting is over - in room for a minute -watching #ESPN show on Len Bias - grew up in MD & loved watching him - what sadness