Biography

Being a food and gut enthusiast, I firmly believe in the notions, “we are what we eat”, “all disease begins in the gut” and “let food be thy medicine”. Accordingly, my research interests span around understanding the host-associated microbiome and the dynamics of diet-gut-brain interface at the extremes of aging and in aging-associated metabolic and neurocognitive health. Specifically, our interdisciplinary lab aims at discovering novel mechanisms and signatures of gut homeostasis versus dysbiosis in host metabolic diseases including obesity and type-2 diabetes and neurocognitive disorders including Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Ultimately, we aim to explore how microbiome modulation with specific nutritional interventions including dietary elements, micronutrients, and pre/probiotics could ameliorate the pathology of these disorders.