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Andrew Brooks, Ph.D.


Seth Bordenstein Lab

How do humans and animals shape the microbial communities living inside of us?

Recent Papers: Phylosymbiosis – PLOS Biology – 2016  American Gut – PLOS Biology – 2018

How Vanderbilt made an impact: BRET for continual support and guidance, as well as excellent workshops and seminars, throughout my Ph.D. The Vanderbilt TIPs program for funding our work on the Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative (https://my.vanderbilt.edu/microbiome/). Vantage and especially Karen Beeri for guidance and support with metagenomic sequencing and human genotyping.

Next plans: Postdoctoral research at Stanford University under Carlos Bustamante and Mike Snyder