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, w88 slot online biology, 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 online; F32AT00853301

Patents

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

Awards, Honors, & Professional Recognition

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