Research Interests
Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational modeling, microbiomes, host-microbiome interactions, microbial metabolism
Selected Grants
A multi-scale systems biology framework for understanding and engineering the human gut microbiome
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2017 - 2030Dietary Fiber-Microbiome Interactions: Elucidating Mechanisms to Suppress Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in the Human Gut
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2025 - 2029NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027Duke Training Grant in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 1988 - 2027Investigating energy efficiency, information processing and control architectures of microbial community interaction networks
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Southern California · 2024 - 2026Deciphering Molecular Networks Driving Community-Level Functions: A Generalizable Systems Biology Framework for Microbiome Research and Engineering.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026Accelerating microbial community metabolism with physics-integrated active machine learning
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2025 - 2026A Systems Understanding of Nitrogen-fixation on the Aerial Roots of Sorghum
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Wisconsin - Madison · 2024 - 2025Integrating physics and machine learning to design stable microbial communities
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2024 - 2025External Relationships
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
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