
Living in a microbial world & I am a microbial girl...
Hello! I am Lianne Campbell MSc, a citizen scientist fascinated by emerging research into the human microbiome. At the tender age of 16, I was diagnosed with an 'autoimmune' condition and regularly suffered with various health problems such as sickness, allergic reactions, fatigue and joint pain. Since then I have read everything and anything relating to autoimmune conditions, including my entire medical records which showed that my health started to deteriorate after three

Biome Books
There are some really cool, thought provoking microbiome books out there so I thought I'd take the opportunity to share some of the books I'

Microbiome making headlines!
The field of human microbiome research has exploded in the last decade. This has resulted in the microbiome dominating headlines in almost every scientific journal, and now making an appearance in Time Magazine, Forbes, The Economist, The New Yorker, and National Geographics. According to the National Microbiome Initiative, 'Microbiomes are the communities of micro-organisms that live on or in people, plants, soil, oceans, and the atmosphere. Microbiomes maintain healthy func