who why and why we needed to deal today with the head of the center elena petrovna hello elena petrovna mikhailenko, the leaders of the republican center for the study of the microbiome of the institute of genetics and cytology of the national academy of sciences of belarus, the leading researcher of the laboratory of ecological genetics and biotechnology of the institute, genetics and cytology of the national academy of sciences of belarus, opened a candidate of biological sciences recently. why right now it was decided to open a whole center and study the microbiome there, the center was opened in december 21. the decision to open this center was made by the chairman of the academy of sciences of belarus, gusakov vladimir grigoryevich, because research on the microbiome in the republic of belarus has increased in number, this topic is quite relevant and quite promising. uh, why the institute of genetics? uh, because at the institute of genetics, if the entire line of equipment that allows you to do such research. uh, microbiome research is now focused on studying the genetic characteristics of ou