{"id":793,"date":"2017-12-04T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=793"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:05:30","slug":"rob-knight-and-jack-gilbert-re-earth-microbiome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Rob Knight and Jack Gilbert RE: Cataloguing The Human Microbiome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Rob Knight and Jack Gilbert interview with Science Friday about the Earth Microbiome Project. Interview can be found\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #999999; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/today-cataloguing-the-human-microbiome-tomorrow-the-worlds\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">There are an estimated <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/24\/science\/one-trillion-microbes-on-earth.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one trillion<\/a> different species of bacteria living across the planet. Scientists are just beginning to understand the level of diversity and role these bacteria play in the environment. The <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthmicrobiome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth Microbiome Project<\/a> is an effort to collect samples of bacteria from different locations to create a microbial map of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>[<a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/videos\/breakthrough-killer-snail-chemist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet the killer snail chemist.<\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The team of scientists analyzed the first 27,000 samples, which included bacteria collected from permafrost, Komodo dragons, and coral reefs. Biologist Rob Knight and Jack Gilbert, two of the co-founders of the Earth Microbiome Project, discuss what patterns they found in the data and what they tells us about life on Earth on the microbial scale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Knight and Jack Gilbert interview with Science Friday about the Earth Microbiome Project. Interview can be found\u00a0here There are an estimated one trillion different species of bacteria living across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}