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Only recently do scientists understand the prevalence and importance of fungi in our digestive system anatomy. Dr. Iliev tells listeners about: How fungal microbiota, or mycobiota, changes under conditions of inflammation in the bowel. What this might mean regarding the relationship between fungi, bacteria, and bowel disease. Why a mutation of cells with a receptor sensitive to fungi might hold a key to Crohn's Disease. Dr. Iliyan Iliev is Assistant Professor of Immunology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. As a mucosal immunologist, he and his lab are focusing specifically on how mycobiota impacts bowel inflammation. Their work has lead them to examine how components of fungi, bacteria, and cell interaction may lead to relief from immunological bowel diseases. The balance between fungi and bacteria appears to be important in the suppression of these diseases, but more work needs to be done. The presence of gut fungi made itself known after detecting a fungal message while undergoing cellu