Jordan Bisanz, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
The Bisanz lab focuses on understanding how host-microbiota interactions shape health and disease. Through intertwining complex biological questions with the development of tools for meta-analysis of microbiome datasets, comparative genomics, synthetic community design and gnotobiotic animal models, they are probing the complex bidirectional interaction networks between microbial communities and their hosts. By combined experimental and computational approaches, they are shining light on the mechanisms that dictate infection resistance and nutrition through a microbial lens. The long-term goal of their research is to harness mechanistic understanding of the gut microbiota to develop new therapeutic targets and diagnostic tools.
Since 2021, Bisanz has been an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions at the Pennsylvania State University and the One Health Microbiome Center. Prior to joining PSU, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California San Francisco and his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Western Ontario.
Since 2021, Bisanz has been an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions at the Pennsylvania State University and the One Health Microbiome Center. Prior to joining PSU, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California San Francisco and his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Western Ontario.