Expertise

Subject Area(s): Pathology

Focus areas:

  • Microbiome-targeted non-antibiotic strategies against important enteric diseases such as C. difficile infection in humans and animals.
  • Effect of dysbiosis-associated clostridial metabolites on the gut-brain and gut-liver axes.
  • Molecular epidemiology and zoonotic transmission of community-associated C. difficile infection.
  • In situ animal models for the human gut-microbiome-pathogen interface.
Degrees
MS, University of Connecticut, Pathobiology - Veterinary Anatomic Pathology, 2017
PhD, University of Connecticut, Animal Science – Microbiology, 2016
MVSc, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India, Veterinary Pathology, 2010
BVSc, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, India, 2008