Host with the most

Jeff McBride• (also known as Magnus;

born September 11, 1959) is an American magician. He is known for his sleight of hand skills and specializes in the manipulation of playing cards, coins, and other small objects. His stage performances blend elements of kabuki, a Japanese theater form, with traditional conjuring.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• McBride has made numerous television and documentary appearances, including one as a guest star on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the 1994 episode "Equilibrium", in the role of Joran Belar

Joran Belar• Trill musician with a violent temper, who lived ca.

2264-2285 and was joined to the Dax symbiont for the last six months of his life. Belar was accepted into the Trill initiate program and deemed unsuitable to host a symbiont, but was joined to Dax nevertheless. At that point Joran became more confident and "even colder than usual," according to his brother Yolad, and six months later Joran Dax killed a doctor with the Symbiosis Commission who had recommended that Belar be dropped from the program. He was caught and the symbiont removed, killing Joran. The fact that Joran had held the symbiont successfully for months, despite being declared unsuitable, threatened to expose the closely held secret that nearly half the Trill population is capable of being joined. Rather than risk the chaos that could ensue, the Symbiosis Commission altered the official record to cover up the fact that Joran Belar had been joined, stating that he was still an initiate in 2285 when he committed the murder, and was killed trying to flee the murder scene.

Sci Fi

• To cut through the melodrama: Joran is a host for another life form

• Symbiotic relationships between life forms

Human/Alien Relationship

• Humans are predominantly a “host” vessel

• We are 10% human; 90% bacteria host

• You have more germs in your gut right now than humans that ever lived on Earth

Gut flora

• Gut flora consists of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of animals and is the largest reservoir of human flora. In this context, gut is synonymous with intestinal, and flora with microbiota and microflora, the word microbiome is also in use.

100 trillion

• The human body, consisting of about 10 trillion cells, carries about ten times as many microorganisms in the intestines. The metabolic activities performed by these bacteria resemble those of an organ, leading some to liken gut bacteria to a "forgotten" organ.

We are mostly not us

• It is estimated that these gut flora have around 100 times as many genes in aggregate as there are in the human genome.

Functions

• Carbohydrate fermentation and absorption

• Trophic effects• Repression of pathogenic

microbial growth• Immunity• Metabolic function• Preventing allergy• Preventing inflammatory

bowel disease

Human Microbiome ProjectThe Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is a United States National Institutes of Health initiative with the goal of identifying and characterizing the microorganisms which are found in association with both healthy and diseased humans (i.e. their microbial flora).

Σύν βίωσις

• Symbiosis (from Ancient Greek σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species.

Symbiotic Systems

Cooperation• the process of working or

acting together. In its simplest form it involves things working in harmony, while in its more complicated forms, it can involve something as complex as the inner workings of a human being or even the social patterns of a nation. It is the opposite of working separately in competition.