Journal club: food additives, gut microbiome and trout health and disease

03/25/22 • 82 min

In this episode, we chat with PhD student Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen about his research in salmonids and their microbiome. Since Jacob had two papers published recently, we decided to switch up the format of the podcast a bit and make it like a journal club.
We start by introducing the structure of a scientific research paper, and then dive into Jacob’s papers, which focus on the effect of food additives (probiotics and synbiotics) on the gut microbiome of rainbow trout and how that affects either health or disease.

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