Lessons learned by an organic chemist entering the microbiome field

A Sloan Devlin

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2022.03.004

Lessons learned by an organic chemist entering the microbiome field

Cell Host Microbe. 2022 Apr 13;30(4):435-438. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.03.004.

Author

A Sloan Devlin¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Here, I reflect on my trajectory from a graduate student in organic chemistry to an early-career scientist in the microbiome field. I discuss strategies for discovering microbiome-derived molecules and their activities, and I contemplate how we will uncover which of the molecules we identify are responsible for driving host phenotypes.

MeSH terms

Humans
Microbiota*

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