Don't forget Boston: lecture on the microbes of the gut... TONIGHT!

If you're in the Boston area, come see me (and two other awesome grad students) give a talk on microbes, especially the ones that live in you and on you.

We've got everything from fecal transplants to whether bacteria can make you fat or not. Come out to Armenise amphitheater at the Harvard Medical School at 7pm, you won't regret it!

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Unfortunately, I'm disabled and cannot get to Boston.

Could you possibly post your presentation on YouTube or elsewhere?

Hi sinz - if you look in the "Science in the News" part of the sidebar to the left, there's a link to a vimeo page where we've been posting the lectures this year. It will probably take a week or two to get this video up, but when it's up I'll let you all know.