Elisabeth Bik

Elisabeth Bik is a research associate at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She received her PhD at Utrecht University in The Netherlands and worked at the Dutch National Institute for Health and the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein. When not in the lab, she can be found working on her blog www.microbiomedigest.com, an almost daily compilation of papers in the rapidly growing microbiome field, or @MicrobiomDigest.

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