«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand
human - microbiome
interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his
thesis work
on Ingber's team.
On the scale of
human interactions, the relationship between a graduate student and his or her
thesis adviser (a.k.a. major professor) lies somewhere between that of roommates locked into a long - term lease and a marriage.