Observing Immune Responses to Lyme using Metagenomics with Dr. Charles Chiu

Co-Host Kenzie Vath joins Dr. Charles Chiu, a Scientific Advisory Board Member at GLA. Dr. Chiu leads a fascinating conversation that weaves through the landscape of Lyme diagnostics, and some of the fascinating work on metagenomics coming out of Dr. Chiu's lab. Dr. Chiu is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine Divergent of Infectious Disease at the University of California San Fransisco and Director of UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Dr. Chiu currently leads a transitional research laboratory focused on the development and clinical validation of metagenomic next generation sequencing for diagnostics of infection, outbreak investigation, and pathogen discovery.