Beau Ances, MD, PhD – characterization of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and Alzheimer’s Disease using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD – commensal bacterial and viral interactions with the innate and adaptive immune system.
Arpita Bose, PhD – microbial metabolisms and their influence on biogeochemical cycling using an interdisciplinary approach.
Yin Cao, ScD, MPH – microbial and genetic risk factors for lung and gastrointestinal cancers leveraging large-scale clinical and population-based cohorts.
Matthew Ciorba, MD – microbial interactions relevant to intestinal inflammation and cancer including probiotics and mechanisms of intestinal SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Gautam Dantas, PhD – dynamics, ecology, and evolution of antibiotic resistance, engineering enhanced probiotics to treat gastrointestinal disorders, and engineering microbial biofuel catalysts.
Nicole Gilbert, PhD – microbial antagonism and synergy and host responses in the female reproductive and urinary tracts.
Jeffrey Gordon, MD – role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity.
Scott Handley, PhD – viral and bacterial community dynamics in health and disease.
Scott Hultgren, PhD – host-pathogen interactions, gut-bladder axis, epigenetics, structural pathogenesis, translation to new therapeutics.
Andrew Kau, MD, PhD – understanding the immune-modifying capacity of gastrointestinal and airway microbes through the lens of allergy.
Jennie Kwon, DO, MSCI – microbial ecology of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), and their relationship to the fecal microbiome and the microbiome of the built environment.
Fangqiong Ling, PhD – bacterial colonization and transmission at the boundary of built and natural environments; microbiomes as environmental sensors and public health sentinels.
Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhD – understanding how host genetics and environmental factors interact to shape gut metabolism leading to inflammation.
Elizabeth Mallott, PhD – how the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species.
William McCoy, MD, PhD – how host-microbe interactions at epithelial barrier sites impact skin diseases.
Makedonka Mitreva, PhD – next-generation experimental, multi-omic and computational approaches to empower the study of infectious diseases and the human microbiome.
Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD – inter-organ communication and the transit of cells and molecules out of tissues in healthy and disease states.
Drew Schwartz, MD, PhD – pediatric gut microbiome and immune disruption in serious bacterial infections.
Joan Strassmann, PhD – bacteria associates of soil amoebae.
Yinjie Tang, PhD – metabolism analysis and metabolic engineering of environmental microorganisms for biofuel/chemical production.
Phillip Tarr, MD – pathogenic interactions between microbes and the gut.
Aayushi Uberoi, PhD – understanding the interplay between microbiome, host, and environment in regulating skin barrier homeostasis and pathogenesis.
Timothy Wencewicz, PhD – antibiotic drug discovery.
Meng Wu, PhD – tripartite interactions among the microbiota, stromal cells and the immune system.
Kristine Wylie, PhD – host-microbe dynamics during pregnancy.
Fuzhong Zhang, PhD – synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.
Ting Zhang, PhD – role of infection-stimulated bile metabolites in host defense against enteric bacterial pathogens.