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
- Associate Professor, Animal Sciences
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Office of Research Fellow, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology