Area of research
Molecular Biology · Physiology
Research interest
Research interests include Gut microbiota and health, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Cancer Research and Treatments, and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.
Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease
Microbiota-targeted maternal antibodies protect neonates from enteric infection
A complex human gut microbiome cultured in an anaerobic intestine-on-a-chip
An antiapoptotic role for telomerase RNA in human immune cells independent of telomere integrity or telomerase enzymatic activity
The Major Reverse Transcriptase–Incompetent Splice Variant of the Human Telomerase Protein Inhibits Telomerase Activity but Protects from Apoptosis
An Investigation of the Effects of the Core Protein Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase on Wnt Signaling in Breast Cancer Cells