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Liana Merk

California Institute of Technology

Project

Cultures Across Cultures

Iceland, Greece, China, Japan, Ireland, Switzerland
Invented almost 8000 years ago, yogurt has embedded itself across cultures, with communities developing their own ways of making, propagating, and sharing it. By living with dairy farmers, hearing deep-rooted family traditions, and sequencing microbes from local yogurts, I will learn how yogurt affects both bacterial diversity and diversity of thought.