Awardees for the Microbiome Research Program are listed below.
2022 Trainee/Staff Pilot Awards
Trainee pilot awards were each granted $10,000 for a one-year project.
Daisuke Maruyama
Postdoc, PI: Prakash
Dietary interventions and Microbiome alterations influence Lung Injury responses in Mice
Man Hung Benedict Choi
Postdoc, PI: Goodarzi
Identifying molecular determinants of microbiome-tumor interactions in cancer progression using in vivo selection models
Ori Lieberman
Resident, PI: Amorim
Short-Chain Fatty Acids as Modifiers of Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest: A Pilot Study
Jacqueline Moltzau Anderson
Postdoc, PI: Lynch
Determining the Basis of Fecal Microbial Transplant Failure in Ulcerative Colitis Patients.
Mustafa Özçam
Postdoc, PI: Lynch
Development of a humanized mouse model to uncover the role of human gut microbiome in atopy.
Domenique Escobar
Resident, PI: Porten
The Role of the Urinary and Gut Microbiome in Patients with High-Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Sarah Levkoff Maxwell
Fellow, PI: Wojcicki
Early Microbiome Profiles in Latinx Children with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Jeremie Rispal
Postdoc, PI: Klein
Characterization of the link between microbiome and intestinal epithelial cells in cellular and regional specific manner.
Connie Ha
Staff, PI: Lynch
High-throughput cultivation of the maternal and neonatal human microbiota
2022 Faculty Pilot Awards
Faculty pilot awards were each granted $50,000 for a one-year project.
Aoife O'Donovan
Associate Professor
Gut Reactions: The Microbiome in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Dara Torgerson
Associate Professor
The lung microbiome-metabolome of extremely preterm infants at high risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Bryan Winn
Professor
Determining the capacity of the ocular surface microbiome to disrupt elastin in floppy eyelid syndrome
2022 Faculty Project Awards
Faculty project awards were each granted $150,000 for a two-year project.
Andrea Garber
Professor
Gut dysbiosis and metabolic recovery in patients with malnutrition secondary to anorexia nervosa
Michael Kattah
Assistant Professor
Microbial and mucosal immune responses to strict dietary modification in ulcerative colitis
Valerie Flaherman
Professor
Preventing Growth Impairment in Low-Income Countries: The Relationship Between Maternal Milk Composition and Infant Growth
2021 Trainee/Staff Pilot Awards
Trainee pilot awards were each granted $10,000 for a one-year project. Select awards (denoted by *) are co-funded by UCSF ImmunoX.
Carla Grazielle Bueno Silva
Postdoc, PI: Bayrer
Microbiotic and Metabolomic Consequences of Gut LRH-1 Modulation
Youn-Jeong Choi
Postdoc, PI: Saba
Sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase (SPL) controls redox balance at microbe-gut mucosa interface
Laura Dwyer
Grad Student, PI: Scharschmidt
Identifying Microbial Metabolites Critical to the Immune Trajectories of Preterm Birth Infants
Jacqueline Harris
Resident, PI: Sharon
Establishing the microbiome of eustachian tube dysfunction and allergic rhinitis
Sakeen Kashem
Postdoc, PI: Basbaum
Contribution of the commensal microbiota to mouse sensory behavioral response and peripheral nerve anatomy
Abigail Lind
Postdoc, PI: Pollard
Protective impacts of commensal protists on the human gut microbiome
Xiangpeng Li
Postdoc, PI: Abate
Sequencing 100,000 individual bacterial transcriptomes on a commercial platform
Cecilia Noecker*
Postdoc, PI: Turnbaugh
Applying new tools to assess drivers and consequences of strain-level variation in prevalent gut bacteria
Claire O'Leary*
Postdoc, PI: Locksley
Biliary immunity is shaped by the microbiome
Neil Patel
Resident, PI: Loftus
Impact of Probiotic Sinus Rinse on the Microbiome of the Post-Radiation Nasopharynx of Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Nathan Shaw
HS Clinical Instructor, PI: Breyer
Transposition of Oral Buccal Mucosa for Urethral Replacement: Impact on Urinary Microbiome and Urethral stricture outcomes
Claire Schachtschneider*
Jr. Specialist, PI: Lynch
Identification of Bacteriophage Targeting the Asthma-associated Respiratory Pathogen M. catarrhalis
Archana Venkataraman
Postdoc, PI: Ingraham
Uncovering estrogen-dependent changes in the gut microbiome
2021 Faculty Pilot Awards
Faculty pilot awards were each granted $150,000 for a two-year project.
Katrina Abuabara
Associate Professor
Environmental microbes, climate, and allergic disease
Sagar Bapat
HS Clinical Instructor
Identifying In Vivo Microbial Determinants Shaping Long-Range Immune Responses in Obesity
Stephanie Gaw
Assistant Professor
The impact of maternal COVID-19 disease severity on the neonatal intestinal microbiome and its effect on intestinal epithelial barrier function
Jennifer Lai
Associate Professor
Understanding the role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of primary sclerosing cholangitis after liver transplantation through integrative analysis of the gut microbiome and host metabolome
2020 Trainee Pilot Awards
Trainee pilot awards were each granted $10,000 for a one-year project.
Joel Babdor
Postdoc, PI: Spitzer
Integrative analysis of the metabolome and the immune system in patients with solid organ transplantation and immunosuppressant therapy – a biological framework to explore the impact of the microbiota derived metabolome on immune-mediated organ rejection.
Pauline Basso
Postdoc, PI: Noble
Interrogating the host response to gut colonization with Candida albicans.
Annamarie Bustion
Graduate student, PI: Pollard
Identifying bacterial enzymes responsible for drug metabolism in the human gut microbiome.
Miqdad Dhariwala
Postdoc, PI: Scharschmidt
Dissecting early life microbial imprinting of skin immune function.
Ying Lu
Staff, PI: Den Besten
Oral microbiome in the pathogenesis of mucosal complications and blood stream infection (BSI) in children undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).
Elze Rackaityte
Postdoc, PI: DeRisi
Establishing a Reference Human Microbiome Peptidome for Identification of Autoantibodies.
Ryan Rampersaud
Fellow, PI: Wolkowitz, Mellon
Genotypic and Phenotypic Studies of Human Lactobacillus Isolates from Major Depressive Disorder.
Lea Sedghi
Grad student, PI: Kapila
Effect of Processed Grain Consumption on the Dentogingival Microbiome and Immune Response in Periodontal Disease.
Vaibhav Upadhyay
Fellow, PI: Turnbaugh
The Gut Microbiome in Predisposition to and as a Marker of Sars-CoV-2 Infection.
Karin Wu
Fellow, PI: Schafer
Role of the Gut Microbiome in Bone Metabolism in Severe Obesity and After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
2020 Faculty Pilot Awards
Faculty pilot awards were each granted $150,000 for a two-year project.
Nadav Ahituv
Professor
Characterization of the interaction between breast milk supply, metabolome, maternal genetics and microbiome with the infant gut microbiome in the first year of life
Joanna Halkias
Assistant Professor
Double-humanized mice to study the influence of early-life microbes on human immune development
Matt Spitzer
Assistant Professor
ImmunoMicrobiome: Multi-OMIC pipeline for discovery of immunomodulatory microbiota-derived metabolites
Martin Valdearcos
Assistant Professor
Microglial memory of the maternal microbiome in the early life programming of metabolic function
