As part of the Neuroscience graduate student association and center for neurogenomics speaker series, Greg interviews Dr. Rob Knight, an expert in microbiota techniques and analysis to discuss growing up in New Zealand then transferring to graduate school in the states (2:27), transitioning from traditional wet lab science to computational science (4:41), the lag in microbiome research and innovations driving the field (8:19), unique collaborations (16:06), the general public's knowledge of the gut microbiome (19:15), the difficulty of juggling so many tasks as an academic( 20:41), the earth microbiome project and the american gut project (23:14), and microbiota trends (27:36).