Life in the Lab: Working with human gut microbiota @yourgenome
Life in the Lab: Working with human gut microbiota  @yourgenome
Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Hilary Browne is a PhD student, working in the infection genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. In this film he describes how to work safely in the lab with bacteria from the human gut including culturing them on agar plates and extracting the DNA for genome sequencing.

The infection genomics programme uses a variety of different research approaches to study the biology and evolution of disease-causing organisms such as viruses, bacteria and parasites and understand how they cause disease in humans and other animals.

This is one of a series of Life in the lab films providing a more in-depth insight to some of the laboratory processes used by different teams at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The film has been developed to help support the OCR Cambridge Technical Level 3 in laboratory skills.

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Life in the Lab: Working with human gut microbiota

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