Rob Knight

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Rob Knight

Rob Knight (* 1976 in Dunedin , New Zealand ) is a biologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is concerned with large-scale microbiome analysis and the relationships between different microbiomes, microbiomes and their environment, and microbiomes and diseases.

Knight earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Otago University in 1996 and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University in 2001 . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the University of Colorado Boulder , where he received his first professorship in 2004. From 2009 to 2014 he was an Early Career Scientist for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He has been at the University of California, San Diego since 2015. He holds a professorship (for paediatrics) at the medical faculty of UCSD and one at the Jacobs School of Engineering there (for computer science).

Knight is the co-founder of Earth Microbiome Project , the hundreds of thousands of sequenced by Mikrobiomen of earth, using crowdfunding funded American Good Project , which analyzes the microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract by so many people makes as possible, and the company Biota Inc , the oil exploration based on the DNA of microorganisms below the earth's surface.

In 2012, Knight was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2015 he received the Vilceck Prize in Creative Promise for the Life Sciences , for 2017 he was awarded the Massry Prize . As of May 2019, it has an h-index of 158.

Sources and References

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literature

  • Virginia Gewin: Microbes en masse: The sequencing machine . In: Nature . tape 487 , no. 7406 , July 11, 2012, p. 156-158 , doi : 10.1038 / 487156a (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juliette Irmer: The microbiome in the intestine has lost diversity. In: derstandard.at . November 9, 2016, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Rob Knight, PhD. In: hhmi.org. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gary Robbins: UCSD hires star biologist Rob Knight. In: sandiegouniontribune.com. January 11, 2015, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ American Gut Project Crowdfunds $ 1 Million to Study the Human Microbiome. In: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. October 29, 2015, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Heather Buschman, Ph D: 2017 Massry Prize Honors Microbiome Research Pioneers. In: health.ucsd.edu. August 9, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Department of Biochemistry alumnus wins Massry Prize. In: otago.ac.nz. August 15, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  7. ^ Rob Knight - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de. Accessed May 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand biologist at the University of California, San Diego
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunedin