People

Jeffrey Gordon, MD (jgordon@wustl.edu)

Michael Barratt, PhD (mjbarratt@wustl.edu)

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

Jiye Cheng, PhD (jiyecheng@wustl.edu)

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

Matthew Hibberd, PhD (hibberdm@wustl.edu)

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

Yi Wang, PhD ( wangyi837@wustl.edu)

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

Daniel Webber, MD, PhD (dmwebber@wustl.edu)

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

Alexandra Byrne (byrne@wustl.edu)

Neurosciences

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

ZeNan Chang (changzl@wustl.edu)

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

Kali Pruss, PhD (kmpruss@wustl.edu)

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

Mst. Noorjahan Begum, PhD

Md. Mamun Monir, PhD

Hannah Lynn (Bucklin) (hmbucklin@wustl.edu)

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

Winnie (Ye) Chen (c.ye1@wustl.edu)

Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology

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

Reyan Coskun (reyan@wustl.edu)

Immunology Program

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

Marie Crane (c.marie@wustl.edu)

Computational and Systems Biology

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

Steven Hartman (h.steven@wustl.edu)

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

Evan Lee (emlee@wustl.edu)

Computation and Systems Biology Program

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

Cyrus Zhou (czhou25@wustl.edu)

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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

Athziri Marcial Rodríguez (athziri@wustl.edu)

Kelsey Hudson (h.kelsey@wustl.edu)

Kazi Ahsan (ahsan@wustl.edu)

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

Su Deng (sdeng@wustl.edu)

Generation of multi-omic datasets from human gut microbiota samples

Ke Ke (Ke.k@wustl.edu)

Janaki Lelwala-Guruge, PhD (Janaki@wustl.edu)

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

Nathan McNulty (nmcnulty@wustl.edu)

Translational studies of the effects of dietary fiber on 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 (tim.s@wustl.edu)

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

Maya Kovacevic (k.maya@wustl.edu)

Suzy Henrissat (hsuzanne@wustl.edu)

CAZyme gene repertoire in the gut microbiome of healthy and malnourished children

Maria Karlsson (karlsson@wustl.edu)

Co-director of gnotobiotic facility

David O’Donnell (dodonnell@wustl.edu)

Co-director of gnotobiotic facility

Marty Meier (mmeier@wustl.edu)

Director, CGS_SB Robotics Facility

Sabrina Wagoner (wagoner@wustl.edu)

Research Lab Manager

Stephanie Amen (samen@wustl.edu)

Assistant to Jeffrey Gordon