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Julie Segre Delivers the Anita Roberts Lecture
BY SUNITA CHOPRA, NCI
We often associate microbes with disease. But the Human Microbiome Project has shown that people live in a mutually beneficial relationship with trillions of microbes on and in their bodies. Human diseases affecting the mouth (cavities) and gastrointestinal tract (inflammatory bowel disease) as well as more complex diseases such as premature birth or type 2 diabetes are associated with alterations in the microbiome. And now, clinical studies are investigating whether those modifications might even drive some features of disease.
Julie Segre
Senior Investigator
Julie A. Segre (National Human Genome Research Institute, NHGRI), who is exploring the skin microbiome, explained the dichotomy in her Anita Roberts Lecture titled “Human Microbiome: Friend or Foe” on November 3, 2020. She uses genome sequencing and computational methods to characterize the healthy skin microbiome to better understand the pathology