Research Program and Theme
Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems | 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 between the resident microbiota, intestine, and brain, his work strives to formulate dietary interventions that reduce gastrointestinal symptoms during 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.
Education
- PhD, Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, 2017
Campus Affiliations
- Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology