“The 13th In Silico Megabank Research Seminar” will be held on Friday, September 28.

・Date/Time: September28 (Fri.) 17:00‐18:30
・Venue: Conference Room 1 (2F), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization
・Title: About the three intestinal types discovered from human intestinal flora
・Lecturer: Takuji Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
・Abstract:
It is said that in the human intestinal, there are 1000 species and 100 trillion bacterial groups are symbiotic. In this study, we found that it can be divided roughly into three types of intestinal bacterial compositions that do not depend on the relationship between nationalities and geographic location. With each type, its own unique intestinal flora metabolic has been built up, and the differences in their metabolic capacity are supposed to be accurately quantified in the future.

With regard to the personalized medicine in the future, genomic information, as well as diagnosis of metabolic capacity of intestinal flora should be necessary for proper choice of oral medication and diet.