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
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
Assistant Professors

Brooks Brodrick, MD, PhD

Jiye Cheng, PhD
Characterizing expressed metabolic features of the developing gut microbiota of healthy and undernourished infants and children

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
Instructors

ZeNan Chang, MD, PhD
Regulation of epithelial cell census in crypt-villus units in undernourished pregnant women with EED

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

Daniel Webber, MD, PhD
Characterizing structure/activity relationships in microbiota-directed complementary food prototypes for treating childhood undernutrition
Postdoctoral Fellows

Liam Fitzstevens, PhD

Steven Hartman
Computational and Systems Biology Program
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

Kali Pruss, PhD
Analyses of the metabolic correlates of MDCF repair of the gut microbiomes of Bangladeshi children with moderate acute malnutrition
Graduate Students



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

Marie Crane
Computational and Systems Biology Program
Experimental and computational approaches for defining structure-function relationships in microbiota-directed complementary foods designed to treat children with malnutrition

Evan Lee
Computation and Systems Biology Program
Mechanism of action of microbiota-directed complementary foods in metabolic regulation within the gut

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

Cyrus Zhou
Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program
Computational and experimental analyses of gut microbiome development/expression in healthy and undernourished Bangladeshi children
Balzan Visiting Research Scholar

Md. Naimul Islam Faysal

Asaduzzaman Asad
Kornfeld Post-baccalaureate

Athziri Marcial Rodríguez
Senior Research Scientist


Ke Ke

Janaki Lelwala-Guruge, PhD
Culturing bacterial strains from the gut microbiota of children with undernutrition and adults with obesity

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

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
Research Staff

Haoxin Liu
Bioinformaticist

Suzanne Henrissat
CAZyme gene repertoire in the gut microbiome of healthy and malnourished children
Gnotobiotic Facility


Automation Facility

Research Lab Manager

Former Balzan Visiting Research Scholars

Mst. Noorjahan Begum, PhD

Md. Mamun Monir, PhD
Administrative Staff
