The research in our lab focuses on dissecting the complex interactions between pharmacological compounds, diet, gut microbes and host physiological processes responsible for health and disease....
Mechanisms underlying gut microbiome effects on the gut-brain axis...
We use C. elegans as the reference nematode to perform comparative studies in cell biology, developmental biology and genetics. We currently have projects on soma-to-germline transmission of information, evolution of aging, and evolution of sex determination...
I am generally interested in how physiological functions are integrated at a whole-organism level, with a particular emphasis on gut biology....