Research Initiatives
Our research lies at the intersection of microbial ecology, computational biology, and human health. We are interested in the role host-microbe interactions play in shaping the emergence, persistence, and progression of cardiometabolic disease and health outcomes.
Our Research
We leverage athletes as a model system because they ideally represent how sustained physiological stress, diet, and recovery shape the gut-host axis, uncovering insights in:
Physiological perturbations
Metabolic flexibility
Diet-microbe interactions
Multi-modal phenotyping
Recovery, adaptations, and overtraining
Population health
Model System
We integrate multi-omics, machine learning, and experimental validation to move from discovery to causation via (I) data-driven translation, (II) characterization of microbial pathways that link to host phenotypes, and (III) employ in vitro and in vivo interventions that validate mechanistic hypotheses.
