The American Gut Project is now The Microsetta Initiative. If you previously had a participant account through the American Gut Project, please do the following: Create a new account with The Microsetta Initiative Sign up using the same email address you used to register so it can automatically be linked to your original account associated…
Project Overview The Microsetta Initiative (TMI) is a highly collaborative microbiome research study based out of the Knight Lab and the Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) at UC San Diego. The origins of this initiative started with the American Gut (2012) and the British Gut Projects (2014), localized efforts aimed at collecting microbiome data provided…
MacKenzie Bryant is a Research Associate in the wet lab and has been with the Knight lab since August 2017. After researching lung microbiome changes in macaques throughout TB infection and obtaining her Master’s in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, she moved from Pittsburgh to San Diego in order to become a part of Rob Knight’s…
Gail Ackermann has been involved in the American Gut Project and Microsetta Initiative since project inception. She is responsible for uploading and processing all the demographic and sequence data for the project. Gail also takes care of human subjects’ research approval at UCSD related to the project.
Daniel McDonald, Scientific Director, oversees the scientific program of The Microsetta Initiative / the American Gut Project. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes as a developer using popular microbiome software packages such as QIIME 2, and has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers in the microbiome…
Rob Knight is a Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego; he is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the American Academy of Microbiology.
General Information & How to ParticipateHow are the American & British Gut Projects related to The Microsetta Initiative? Great question! The American Gut Project was founded in 2012, followed by the British Gut Project, which began in 2014. These Projects are behind how The Microsetta Initiative got started in 2019; but to expand worldwide, we…
The American & British Gut projects now run through The Microsetta Initiative. If you previously had a participant account through the American/British Gut Project (via microbio.me) please do the following: Create a new account with The Microsetta Initiative Sign-Up using the same email address you used to register, so it can automatically be linked to…
