# How our microbes make us who we are

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2014
- Speaker: Rob Knight
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_knight_how_our_microbes_make_us_who_we_are)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome,” he says. Find out why.

## Lectures

1. [How our microbes make us who we are](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rob_knight_how_our_microbes_make_us_who_we_are/51d0a376f4c7), 18 min (TED's player)