Professional Training and Experience

• PhD, Purdue University - Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Biology 
• DVM, Purdue University - College of Veterinary Medicine
• MA, Western New Mexico University - Teaching, Secondary Education
• BS, University of Georgia - Biology
• BA, University of Georgia, English, Chinese minor

Research Interests

• Role of the gut microbiome in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
• Gut microbial dynamics and colonization resistance in infectious disease
  
  • Clostridiodes difficile infection
• Colobine monkey gut microbial ecology

Publications