Jason Ridlon

Jason Ridlon

Associate Professor, Animal Sciences

Areas of Research

Animal Sciences, Bacteriology, Bile Acids, Colon/Colorectal Cancer, Drug Resistance, Genes, Genomics, Gut Microbiome, Prostate Cancer

Research Program and Theme

Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems | Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology

Research Focus

Jason Ridlon is helping find treatment strategies to improve human health and animal well-being. He studies gut microbiology, specifically the biochemistry and molecular biology of steroid and bile acid biotransformations by the gut microbiota. He is trying to understand how microbial metabolites promote gastrointestinal tract diseases such as liver and colorectal cancers, as well as essential hypertension. His laboratory has established pipelines for gut microbiome and transcriptome analysis, and they have performed genetic manipulation of E. coli, and Bacteroides vulgatus and identified genetic strategies for C. scindens. Visit his research lab’s website for more information.

Education

  • Ph.D., Anaerobic Microbiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008

Campus Affiliations