Ayesha Ali
High performance computing; artificial intelligence; ecological modelling; mathematical methods to examine bacteria in the gut.
Emma Allen-Vercoe
Human gut microbiota; microbial ecology of the gut; microbiota and their environment; microbiota contributions to human health or disease.
Luis Arroyo
Equine and bovine gastroenterology; Clostridium difficile; equine vascular pathologies; arterial calcification; biomechanics of the pulmonary artery.
Joey Bernhardt
Drivers of biodiversity change; metabolic processes; fluctuating environments; seafood; human wellbeing.
Shauna Blois
Health and disease and the fecal microbiome; fecal microbial transplant; hemolytic anemia; coagulation abnormalities.
Gale Bozzo
Oxidative stress metabolism in plants; postharvest biochemistry; secondary metabolism; flavonol catabolism in plants; seed coat darkening.
Angela Cánovas
Beef cattle and small ruminants genomics; genetic interactions between host transcriptome and rumen microbiome influencing desirable traits in cattle.
Clara Cho
Methyl nutrients; chronic diseases; precision nutrition approaches; genetic, epigenetic, physiologic, metabolic and microbiome perspectives on metabolic disease.
Allison Collier
Small animal gastrointestinal disease; gastrointestinal microbiota; fecal microbial transplant; treatment for inflammatory bowel disease in canines.
Karl Cottenie
Definitions of “core” microbiome community; statistical methods; horizontal and vertical transmission in host-associated microbiomes.
Kari Dunfield
Genetic diversity of soil microbial communities; impact of agricultural practices on soil microbial communities; soil remediation.
Hermann Eberl
Modeling; analysis and computer simulation of biological and bio/environmental engineering systems; applications in microbiology.
Ming Fan
Gastrointestinal physiology, nutrition and metabolism in pigs; nutrients and physiological functions; pathogen and antimicrobial resistance concerns; intensive food animal production.
Vehab Farzan
Epidemiology of foodborne pathogens; prevention of infectious disease; epidemiological and microbiological methods; immune response in swine.
Zeny Feng
Microbiome sequencing data; microbiome composition and physiology; microbial dysbiosis and colorectal cancer.
Susan Glasauer
Microorganisms and global geochemical cycles; bacterial-metal interactions; bioremediation; microorganisms and Earth form.
Diego Gomez Nieto
Colitis in horses; neonatal calf diarrhea; acid-base disorders and fluid therapy in critically ill patients; microbiota assessment in mammals.
Larry Goodridge
Antibiotic resistance; food fraud; foodborne pathogens; development of rapid tests to detect foodborne and waterborne pathogens.
Paul Goodwin
Cellular and molecular basis of plant-microbe interactions; plant pathogens; ginseng replant disease; microbiome of ginseng soils.
Jacqueline Goordial
Microbe diversity; microorganisms and biogeochemical cycling; microbial metabolic activity; extreme environments.
Ernesto Guzman
Bee biology, ecology, genetics, and pathology; honeybee microbiome.
Marc Habash
Molecular and culture-based detection of human pathogens; indicator microorganisms; microbial biofilm formation; proteome of bacterial species.
Robert Hanner
Assembly and curation of genetic resource collections; bioinformatics; sampling biodiversity; genetic and genomic research.
Tom Hsiang
Plant pathology; biology of fungi; diseases of grasses or of trees; fungal genome sequencing and analysis.
David Huyben
Fish farming technologies, aqua-feeds and pathogen control; influences on the microbiome and lipid metabolism of salmonid fishes.
Cezar Khursigara
Macromolecular assemblies of bacterial cell division; cell-to-cell interaction; biofilm formation; motility and chemotaxis; development of therapeutics.
Elijah Kiarie
Gastrointestinal and skeletal development for productivity and reduction in antibiotic use; feeding strategies to enhance gut health and function.
Gisele LaPointe
Food, feed and gut microbial ecosystem approaches to reducing food waste and improving food quality and safety.
Brandon Lillie
Genetics of disease; equine infectious disease; beneficial gut bacteria populations for swine; one health approaches to disease.
Mary Ruth McDonald
Crop management; host resistance; plant nutrition; production practices; plant nutrition trials.
Tami Martino
Circadian microbiome and post-myocardial infarction; transgenic, physiologic, molecular, preclinical approaches to heart disease.
Kevin McCann
Microbiome and disease and human health; “systems” view to disease dynamics; biodiversity; ecosystem structure and function; food webs.
Mario Monteiro
Carbohydrate-based vaccines; vaccines against gut bacteria associated with autism; vaccines against bacterium associated with colorectal cancer.
Khurram Nadeem
Predictive modeling of ecological and environmental processes; big data analytics; methods in computing and statistical machine learning.
Amy Newman
Ecology, physiology, and neuroendocrinology; relationship between microbiome and stress; host’s environment, microbiome, and physiology.
Kieran O’Doherty
Social and ethical implications of human microbiome research; clinicians’ views and expectations of human microbiome science.
Wendy Pearson
Neutraceuticals and non-drug veterinary pharmaceuticals; clinical nutrition and dietary modifications to treat inflammatory conditions in horses.
Manish Raizada
Crop probiotics for Canadian farmers; inexpensive and sustainable technologies for smallholder farmers; climate change mitigation.
Nicole Ricker
Antimicrobial resistance in livestock; microbiome and disease progression in farm animals; shotgun metagenomics; swine microbiome.
Scott Ryan
Neuroscience; neurological disorders; gut dysbiosis and neurodegenerative disorders; Parkinson’s disease.
Mauricio Seguel
Ecology, immunology and pathology of wildlife infectious diseases; drivers of this pathogen diversity; immune responses in wildlife.
Rebecca Shapiro
Agriculturally important fungal pathogens; virulence and drug resistance; Candida albicans; fungi-microbe interactions; pathogenesis and growth.
Shayan Sharif
Intestinal microbiota manipulations; antibiotics and probiotics; enteric pathogens; chicken immune system and response to viral pathogens.
Matthew Sorbara
Human gut microbiome; whole-genome sequence; variation between closely related isolates; homeostatic interactions; mucosal immune system.
Jayasankar Subramanian
New varieties of fruit; traditional breeding; cell culture and molecular genetics to fruit breeding; microbiome of stone fruits.
Terry Van Raay
Gut-derived metabolites and gene expression in zebrafish; signaling pathways; onset and progression of disease; Wnt signaling pathway.
Adronie Verbrugghe
Companion animal nutrition; nutrition, gut microbiota, health and disease; alteration of metabolic pathways through nutrition.
Keith Warriner
Food pathogens; antibiotics in animal production; microbiological safety of fresh produce.
Quinn Webber
Movement, disease, and spatial ecology; disease and parasite dynamics within a One Health framework; social microbiome in bats;
Scott Weese
Bacterial infections in animals and humans; Clostridium difficile; antimicrobial resistance; emerging infectious diseases; infection control.
Chris Whitfield
Architecture and assembly of the cell surfaces of pathogenic bacteria; physiology and pathogenesis.
