Seminar
Time:
Food for Health Seminar Series – Daniel Sprockett
Date:
12:00 pm –
1:00 pm
Food Innovation Center (FIC) & Zoom
Room: 277
1901 N 21st St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Contact:
Allie Eaton, aeaton2@unl.edu
Dr. Daniel Sprockett, Cornell University, will present, “Ecological Insights into Assembly of the Gut Microbiome” at the Food for Health Seminar Series.
Dan Sprockett is a postdoc in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell University. Dan completed his Bachelor and Master’s degrees at Kent State University in Ohio where he worked on the evolution of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes. He then when on to obtain his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in David Relman’s lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked on assembly of the human oral and gut microbiome in various states of health and disease. After graduating, he spent a year at Boston Children’s Hosptial and Harvard Medical School, and then went on to join Andy Moeller’s lab at Cornell, where his current works focuses combing ecological modeling with strain-resolved metagenomics to study the transmission and assembly of the gut microbiome in genetically diverse mouse lines.
Summary: This seminar will explore how the application of ecological theory can reveal mechanistic insights into the assembly of the gut microbiome in humans and other mammals. Species interactions between microorganisms and their vertebrate hosts impact nearly every dimension of vertebrate biology, from digestion to immunity to behavior. Placental mammals are typically first colonized at birth, but the source of those microbes, and how the nascent microbial communities that they create respond to continued life-long dispersal from external sources, remains an active area of inquiry. Community ecology provides a coherent framework with which to characterize the processes that shape the structure and function of host-associated microbiomes across a wide-range of experimental and clinical paradigms. This seminar will explore how the application of ecological theory can reveal mechanistic insights into the assembly of the gut microbiome in humans and other mammals.
Contact Allie Eaton if you would like to meet with Dr. Sprockett or for the seminar Zoom link.
Dan Sprockett is a postdoc in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell University. Dan completed his Bachelor and Master’s degrees at Kent State University in Ohio where he worked on the evolution of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes. He then when on to obtain his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in David Relman’s lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked on assembly of the human oral and gut microbiome in various states of health and disease. After graduating, he spent a year at Boston Children’s Hosptial and Harvard Medical School, and then went on to join Andy Moeller’s lab at Cornell, where his current works focuses combing ecological modeling with strain-resolved metagenomics to study the transmission and assembly of the gut microbiome in genetically diverse mouse lines.
Summary: This seminar will explore how the application of ecological theory can reveal mechanistic insights into the assembly of the gut microbiome in humans and other mammals. Species interactions between microorganisms and their vertebrate hosts impact nearly every dimension of vertebrate biology, from digestion to immunity to behavior. Placental mammals are typically first colonized at birth, but the source of those microbes, and how the nascent microbial communities that they create respond to continued life-long dispersal from external sources, remains an active area of inquiry. Community ecology provides a coherent framework with which to characterize the processes that shape the structure and function of host-associated microbiomes across a wide-range of experimental and clinical paradigms. This seminar will explore how the application of ecological theory can reveal mechanistic insights into the assembly of the gut microbiome in humans and other mammals.
Contact Allie Eaton if you would like to meet with Dr. Sprockett or for the seminar Zoom link.
https://foodforhealth.unl.edu/seminar-series
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