Biography Maggie attended Carleton College for her undergraduate degree in Biology before transitioning to the University of Utah for her PhD in the lab of Dr. Ryan O’Connell studying immune cell communication. Her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, with Dr. Peter Turnbaugh, focused on understanding how autoimmune-related microbiota members influence immune …
Biography Publications Education 1999, B.S., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2005, Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ2005-2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Areas of Study Symbiosis Research Overview The goal of my research is to understand the molecular basis by which animals and their natural microbiota form specific, reproducible interactions. Microbial symbioses are prevalent in …
Biography Education Areas of Study Microbiome, Microbe-diet interactions, Cardiovascular disease Research Overview Humans studies have revealed consistent alterations in the gut microbiomes of patients with cardiometabolic and aging-associated diseases. A major focus of my group is to understand how variations in the gut microbiome modulate the effects of diet and host’s susceptibility to cardiometabolic disease. …