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Innovate Phytoceuticals: Kelowna, BC, CA

2023-07 to present | Chief Science Officer
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Mehrbod Estaki

University of Calgary: Calgary, Alberta, CA

2021-09-17 to 2023-07 | Microbiome Research Associate (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology)
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Mehrbod Estaki

University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, US

2019-12 to 2021-09-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Pediatrics)
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Mehrbod Estaki

Education and qualifications (1)

University of British Columbia Okanagan: Kelowna, BC, CA

2013 to 2018 | PhD (Biology)
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Works (15)

Bio-engineering a common probiotic to exploit colonic inflammation promotes reliable efficacy in translational models of colitis

2024-10-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Andrea Verdugo-Meza; Sandeep K. Gill; Artem Godovannyi; Malavika K. Adur; Jacqueline A. Barnett; Mehrbod Estaki; Jiayu Ye; Natasha Haskey; Hannah Mehain; Jessica K. Josephson et al.
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Medication Use is Associated with Distinct Microbial Features in Anxiety and Depression

2024-03-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Amanda Hazel Dilmore; Rayus Kuplicki; Daniel McDonald; Megha Kumar; Mehrbod Estaki; Nicholas Youngblut; Alexander Tyakht; Gail Ackermann; Colette Blach; Siamak MahmoudianDehkordi et al.
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A Mediterranean Diet Pattern Improves Intestinal Inflammation Concomitant with Reshaping of the Bacteriome in Ulcerative Colitis: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
2023-11-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Natasha Haskey; Mehrbod Estaki; Jiayu Ye; Rachel K Shim; Sunny Singh; Levinus A Dieleman; Kevan Jacobson; Deanna L Gibson
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Association of Subjective and Objective Measures of Sleep With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity in Older Men: The Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study

The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
2023-10-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mehrbod Estaki; Lisa Langsetmo; Michelle Shardell; Anna Mischel; Lingjing Jiang; Yuan Zhong; Christopher Kaufmann; Rob Knight; Katie Stone; Deborah Kado et al.
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BIRDMAn: A Bayesian differential abundance framework that enables robust inference of host-microbe associations

2023-02-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Gibraan Rahman; James T. Morton; Cameron Martino; Gregory D. Sepich-Poore; Celeste Allaband; Caitlin Guccione; Yang Chen; Daniel Hakim; Mehrbod Estaki; Rob Knight
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Compositional and genetic alterations in Graves’ disease gut microbiome reveal specific diagnostic biomarkers

The ISME Journal
2021-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Qiyun Zhu; Qiangchuan Hou; Shi Huang; Qianying Ou; Dongxue Huo; Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza; Chaoping Cen; Victor Cantu; Mehrbod Estaki; Haibo Chang et al.
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A Mediterranean-like fat blend protects against the development of severe colitis in the mucin-2 deficient murine model

2021-09-29 | Other
Contributors: Natasha Haskey; Jiayu Ye; Mehrbod Estaki; Andrea A. Verdugo Meza; Jacqueline A. Barnett; Mitra Yousefi; Blake W. Birnie; Samantha Gruenheid; Sanjoy Ghosh; Deanna L. Gibson
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Individuals with substance use disorders have a distinct oral microbiome pattern

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Tomasz Kosciolek; Teresa A. Victor; Rayus Kuplicki; Maret Rossi; Mehrbod Estaki; Gail Ackermann; Rob Knight; Martin P. Paulus
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Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops

PLOS Computational Biology
2021-06-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew R. Dillon; Francis Ouellette; Evan Bolyen; Anja Adamov; Aeriel Belk; Emily Borsom; Zachary Burcham; Justine W. Debelius; Heather Deel; Alex Emmons et al.
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EMPress Enables Tree-Guided, Interactive, and Exploratory Analyses of Multi-omic Data Sets

mSystems
2021-04-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Kalen Cantrell; Marcus W. Fedarko; Gibraan Rahman; Daniel McDonald; Yimeng Yang; Thant Zaw; Antonio Gonzalez; Stefan Janssen; Mehrbod Estaki; Niina Haiminen et al.
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A Comparison of DNA/RNA Extraction Protocols for High-Throughput Sequencing of Microbial Communities

BioTechniques
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Justin P Shaffer; Clarisse Marotz; Pedro Belda-Ferre; Cameron Martino; Stephen Wandro; Mehrbod Estaki; Rodolfo A Salido; Carolina S Carpenter; Livia S Zaramela; Jeremiah J Minich et al.
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Universal adaptive evolution strategy of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum to gut selection pressure from humans, mice and zebrafish

2021-03-10 | Other
Contributors: Shi Huang; Shuaiming Jiang; Dongxue Huo; Celeste Allaband; Mehrbod Estaki; Victor Cantu; Pedro Belda-Ferre; Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza; Qiyun Zhu; Chenchen Ma et al.
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Correction for Estaki et al., “Physical Activity Shapes the Intestinal Microbiome and Immunity of Healthy Mice but Has No Protective Effects against Colitis in MUC2 −/− Mice”

mSystems
2020-12-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Mehrbod Estaki; Douglas W. Morck; Sanjoy Ghosh; Candice Quin; Jason Pither; Jacqueline A. Barnett; Sandeep K. Gill; Deanna L. Gibson
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Physical activity shapes the intestinal microbiome and immunity of healthy mice but has no protective effects against colitis in MUC2-/- mice

2020-05-24 | Other
Contributors: Mehrbod Estaki; Douglas W. Morck; Candice Quin; Jason Pither; Jacqueline A. Barnett; Sandeep K. Gill; Deanna L. Gibson
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Cover Crop Diversity as a Tool to Mitigate Vine Decline and Reduce Pathogens in Vineyard Soils

Diversity
2020-03 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Andrew Richards; Mehrbod Estaki; José Ramón Úrbez-Torres; Pat Bowen; Tom Lowery; Miranda Hart
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Peer review (4 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

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Review activity for The Journal of nutrition, health & aging. (1)