The Sonnenburg Lab

MICROBIOTA-ACCESSIBLE CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION BY GUT BACTERIA

Discovering nutritional mechanisms and strategies for survival in the gut

Image credit: Justin Sonnenburg, Jaime Dant, Jeffrey Gordon
Spatial organization of the gut microbiota

Bacterial localization in health and disease

Image credit: Kristen Earle
Microbiota-pathogen interactions

Mechanisms of colonization resistance and pathogen emergence

doi:10.1111/cmi.12300
Metabolic functionality of complex communities

Impact of diet, perturbations, and modernization on the gut microbiota

Image credit: Sam Smits
Synthetic biology and the microbiota

Engineering commensals to investigate and modulate the gut environment

Image credit: Weston Whitaker