People

Gordon Lab Personnel

Principal Investigator

Jeffrey Gordon, MD

Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Director, The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology

jgordon@wustl.edu

Research Professor

Michael Barratt, PhD

Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Executive Director, Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research
Program Director, Breast Milk, gut Microbiome, and Immunity (BMMI) Project

mjbarratt@wustl.edu

Assistant Professors

Jiye Cheng, PhD

Characterizing expressed metabolic features of the developing gut microbiota of healthy and undernourished infants and children

jiyecheng@wustl.edu

Matthew Hibberd, PhD

Multi-omics analysis of the effects of microbiota-directed therapeutics on the biological state of children with moderate and severe acute malnutrition

hibberdm@wustl.edu

Instructors

Yi Wang, PhD

Enteroid-based mechanistic studies of the effects of gut microbiome immaturity in undernourished Bangladeshi children on gut epithelial cell biology

wangyi837@wustl.edu

Daniel Webber, MD, PhD

Characterizing structure/activity relationships in microbiota-directed complementary food prototypes for treating childhood undernutrition

dmwebber@wustl.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Alexandra Byrne, PhD

Intergenerational transfer of gut microbial communities and their effects on neurodevelopment in the context of childhood undernutrition

byrne@wustl.edu

ZeNan Chang, MD, PhD

Regulation of epithelial cell census in crypt-villus units in undernourished pregnant women with EED

changzl@wustl.edu

Liam Fitzstevens, PhD

lfitzstevens@wustl.edu

Kali Pruss, PhD

Analyses of the metabolic correlates of MDCF repair of the gut microbiomes of Bangladeshi children with moderate acute malnutrition

kmpruss@wustl.edu

Graduate Students

Hannah Lynn

Molecular Cell Biology Program

Development of microbiota-directed complementary food prototypes for treating childhood undernutrition in different populations living in different geographic locations and having different anthropologic features

hmbucklin@wustl.edu

Winnie (Ye) Chen

Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology

Interactions with components of therapeutic foods and different human gut bacterial strains that naturally reside in the intestines of children

c.ye1@wustl.edu

Reyan Coskun

Immunology Program

Effects of the small intestinal microbiota of women and children with EED on fetal-placental development

reyan@wustl.edu

Marie Crane

Computational and Systems Biology

Experimental and computational approaches for defining structure-function relationships in microbiota-directed complementary foods designed to treat children with malnutrition

c.marie@wustl.edu

Steven Hartman

Computational and Systems Biology

Mechanistic studies of the functional effects of microbiota-directed foods on bacterial strains present in the microbial communities of malnourished children and how they impact host physiology

h.steven@wustl.edu

Evan Lee

Computation and Systems Biology Program

Mechanism of action of microbiota-directed complementary foods in metabolic regulation within the gut

emlee@wustl.edu

Cyrus Zhou

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Computational and experimental analyses of gut microbiome development/expression in healthy and undernourished Bangladeshi children

czhou25@wustl.edu

Visiting Research Scholar

Emma Kiehn

kiehn@wustl.edu

Kornfeld Post-baccalaureate

Athziri Marcial Rodríguez

athziri@wustl.edu

Undergraduate Student

Kelsey Hudson

h.kelsey@wustl.edu

Senior Research Scientist

Kazi Ahsan

Development of diagnostic assays to characterize the microbiome and plasma proteomic responses of malnourished infants and children to therapeutic intervention

ahsan@wustl.edu

Su Deng

Generation of multi-omic datasets from human gut microbiota samples

sdeng@wustl.edu

Ke Ke

Ke.k@wustl.edu

Janaki Lelwala-Guruge, PhD

Culturing bacterial strains from the gut microbiota of children with undernutrition and adults with obesity

Janaki@wustl.edu

Nathaniel McNulty, PhD

Translational studies of the effects of dietary fiber on the expression of gut microbiome-encoded CAZymes and the resulting effects on fiber glycan and other aspects of microbial community metabolism, as well as host biology

nmcnulty@wustl.edu

Tim Seebeck

Development of CRISPR-based approaches for targeting genes in members of the developing gut microbiomes of healthy and undernourished infants, children and their mothers

tim.s@wustl.edu