May the Fiber Be with You: Gut Microbiomes from a remote Amazon village to the undergraduate lab Katrine Whiteson University of California Irvine School of Biological Sciences, co-Director, UCI Microbiome Center Bacterial and viral colonization of the human body has profound implications for human health, yet our understanding of what constitutes a “healthy microbiome” remains incomplete—especially in the […]

How infants learn to eat plants (and why they may not want to) Annie E. Wertz Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara Life is mostly plants. Plants constitute an estimated 80% of the biomass on Earth and are concentrated in terrestrial environments. Millions of animal species rely on plants to […]