Suzanne L Ishaq

Summary

The majority of my work focuses on host-associated microbiomes and understanding lifestyle circumstances which select for communities. I want to know how we can recover a stable microbial community in humans and animals which have already gotten to the point of chronic microbial community dysfunction and disease. I have three overarching research goals: 1) to better characterize microbiomes using cutting-edge technology, 2) to use this characterization to determine the relation of community structure to system functionality and homeostasis in simplified models, and 3) to develop prevention and intervention therapies which can return a perturbed microbiome back into balance in vivo.

Agricultural Science Microbiology

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