Rob DeSalle is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. He is author or coauthor of dozens of books, several based upon exhibitions at the AMNH, including The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs and A Natural History of Wine, coauthored with Ian Tattersall and published by Yale University Press. Susan L. Perkins is curator of microbial systematics and genomics at AMNH. Both live in New York City.
"DeSalle and Perkins make it easy and fun to learn about this
rapidly expanding field."—Publishers Weekly
"Welcome to the Microbiome gets it right—we are specks in the
microbial world. We must deeply understand that fact, so we can
make smarter decisions about our health."—Martin Blaser, author of
Missing Microbes
"Leave it to two scientists and a scientific illustrator from our
unsurpassed American Museum of Natural History to deliver such a
delightful addition to our growing tome of literature on the
microbial communities in, on and around us. Kudos!"—Jessica Snyder
Sachs, author of Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a
Bacterial World
"In Welcome to the Microbiome, DeSalle and Perkins provide nothing
short of a primer to being human, a primer from the perspective of
our ancient associations with microscopic species, the species that
live in your teeth, ears and colon, the species that are sometimes
described as being ‘on you,’ but as DeSalle and Perkins make clear,
really are you. If you want to understand yourself, your flesh,
your existence and struggles, what it is that you see and don't see
when you stand naked in the mirror, read this book."—Rob Dunn,
author of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
"Desalle and Perkins have produced a beautifully comprehensive
guide to the microbes that inhabit our body and how we know about
them. This book should be of tremendous interest to anyone looking
to peer behind the microbiome headlines and understand what is
really going on."—Rob Knight, author of Follow Your Gut: The
Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
"This is a really great read and a timely summary of a field that
has just exploded. The authors do a great job of reviewing the
literature in an accessible and accurate way, and the vignettes are
really entertaining."—Paul J. Planet, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia
University
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