Research Program and Theme
- Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems
- Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology
Research Focus
Loman’s interdisciplinary research improves animal and human gastrointestinal and mental health. By understanding how environmental factors such as nutrition and stress alter communication among the resident microbiota, the intestine, and the brain, his work aims to formulate dietary interventions that reduce gastrointestinal symptoms in functional gastrointestinal disorders, psychological stress, and cancer. Loman’s research interests include microbial regulation of intestinal physiology, dietary modulation of enteric microbial metabolism, microbiota-gut-brain axis and stress, and functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Other Campus Affiliations
- Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology