#HC-02-55 The Human Microbiome
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
EIT FoodDescription
Learn how a healthy microbiome can combat disease
The microbiome – the microbes that live within the human body – can have a huge impact on human health. As such, it’s vital to understand the complexity of the microbiome, and how it can impact on disease and wellbeing.
On this course, you’ll go on a fascinating journey into the human body – down to the gut – where the ecology and roles of the human microbiome will be narrated.
You’ll explore how your microbiome changes throughout your life, reflect on the role of food in its modulation, and explain the functions the microbiome has in the gastrointestinal tract in daily life.
What topics will you cover?
- The human microbiome, role in human health and how it changes during life
- How can we determine our gut microbiota
- The role of food and lifestyle in the modulation of human gut microbiome
- The human microbiota and prevention of diseases through microbiota-directed foods
Who will you learn with?
I’m a professor in food microbiology at the University of Torino, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences. My research focuses on food safety and microbial ecology of fermented foods.
I am a researcher interested in the communication between the gut microbiota and the cells our body, and its consequences on health.
I’m a Lecturer in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading. My research is focussed on better understanding the relationship between diet, gut microbiota and health
I am deputy Head of UK Food Databanks and a Group Leader in Diet & Health at QIB. My research focuses on the role of diet in preventing disease, and the interplay of nutrition with the gut microbiome.
Who developed the course?
EIT Food is Europe’s leading food initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted.
What Will I Learn?
- Describe how the human microbiome changes throughout the human life
- Reflect on the role of food in the modulation of human microbiome
- Explain the functions that human microbiome has in the gastrointestinal tract
- Reflect on the links between human microbiome and diseases
- Discuss the topics of the course and their relationship with daily life
- Assess the complexity of the human microbiome communities
Topics for this course
Welcome to the course
From the Lead Educator
Who will be sharing their expertise
The composition of human microbiota
The functions of the gut microbiota
Physiological changes during the life-span
How to determine our gut microbiota
Great course, I really like Maria Traka, easy to understand.
The course is very interesting and I strongly recommend it, however I can not give 5 stars because of the strange quality of the graphics in the videos
I learned a great deal from this course and it came highly recommended to me, thankyou
In my opinion the course was appropriated for my level, even because everything was explained in simple words starting from the basis and without too many technical notions. Contents were rich and vary and proposed in different ways, such as reading texts, videos, exercises and practical activities.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for anyone interested in subjects related to the human microbiome, how food can influence it, and how this resultantly impacts on human health.