Animals evolved in a microbial world, and today nearly every lineage of animal engages in symbioses with microorganisms. The guiding question of my research program is to understand how microbial symbionts shape the ecology and evolution of their vertebrate hosts. To this end, I employ a combination of multi-omics approaches, innovative gnotobiotic experimental systems, and natural history studies, with a focus on dissecting how host-microbe interactions shape vertebrate phenotypes in nature.
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