Interest

Ancient relationships between hosts and microbes provide insight into key biological processes including digestion, infection, nutrition, resistance to disease, immune programming, and metabolic development. By understanding these relationships, and how they are created or maintained, my work seeks to build rational, translational technologies and therapies. Using biotechnology, molecular w88 slot, and an understanding of ecological and evolutionary relationships, we aim to improve our understanding of the gut microbiome and food. We also work to actively facilitate the dissemination of these discoveries and innovations to practice in industry, medicine, and research.

Accomplishments

Funding Awards

• National Institutes for Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2015 “The Impact of Milk Glycopeptide and Bifidobacterium on the Weaning Gut Microbiome&w88 slot; F32AT00853301

Patents

• Nutrititive compositions with bioactive proteins.&w88 slot;
  WO2021021765A1. 2019.
• “Compositions and methods to promote host defense and stimulate, expand, and/or reset T-cell repertoires.&w88 slot;
  WO2019232513A1. 2018.
• “Compostions and method of use for H5-competent Bifidobacterium Longum subsp. infantis&w88 slot;
  w88 slot. 2018. 20220010267
• “Novel oligosaccharides for use in prebiotic applications&w88 slot;
  w88 slot. 2018. 2021016924
• “Diagnosis and treatment of dysbiosis associated with NEC.&w88 slot;WO2020142755A1. 2019.
• “Activation of conditionally-expressed oligosaccharide pathways during fermentation of probiotic strains.&w88 slot;WO2019143871A1. 2018.
• “Method for determining dysbiosis in the intestinal microbiome.&w88 slot;WO2019136186A2. 2018.
• “Oligosaccharide compositions and their use during transitional phases of the mammalian gut microbiome.&w88 slot;WO2019055717A1. 2017.
• “Metabolomic revision of mammalian infants.&w88 slot;WO2019055718A1. 2017.
• “Method for facilitation maturation of the mammalian immune system.&w88 slot;WO2018006080A1. 2016.
• “Food compositions for weaning.&w88 slot;WO2017156548A1. 2016.
• “Transient commensal microorganisms for improving gut health.&w88 slot;WO2017156550A1. 2016.
• “Compositions that metabolize or sequester free sugar monomers and uses thereof.&w88 slot;WO2016149149A1. 2015.
• “Reduction of milk glycans and their degradation products in the neonate gut.&w88 slot;WO2016094836A1. 2014.

Awards, Honors, & Professional Recognition

• w88 slot Nevada Foundation, Early Career Innovator Award (2022).
• European Probiotic Association, Jules Tournut Probiotics Prize for innovative and significant contributions to probiotic w88 slot in animal nutrition (2014)