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This course provides an overview on the role of microbiome in human health and disease. It focuses on conceptual framework and technologies for understanding how microbiome, particularly gut microbiome impact human health and well-being. Topics covered include the concept of human superorganism, microbiome and human adaptation/evolution, effects of nutrition on human microbiota, ecological principles of microbiomes, systems thinking and approaches for working on human microbiome, bioinformatics and statistics tool kits for human microbiome research; research strategy and experimental/trial design in microbiome study, from correlation to causality of human microbiome in chronic diseases, nutrition and gut microbiome, food processing and gut microbiome. The following topics are also included; microbiome in medicine Intergenerational, vertical transmission of human microbiomes, horizontal transfer of human microbiomes, microbiome and human society, microbiome and human-nature relationship.