Current Members
Mark Adame
Graduate Student (Microbiology & Immunology)
Interests: the role of gut microbial metabolites in sepsis
Jenn Baker
Graduate student (Microbiology & Immunology)
Interests: the altered ecology of the injured lung microenvironment; oxygen-induced lung injury; pneumonia
Kale Bongers MD PhD
Post-doctoral fellow (Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine)
Interests: the microbiome, skeletal muscle, and metabolism in sepsis
Rishi Chanderraj MD
Assistant Professor (Infectious Diseases)
Interests: ICU infections, the role of the gut microbiome in clinical outcomes of critical illness
Michael Combs MD
Post-doctoral fellow (Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine)
Interests: the role of the lung microbiome in chronic lung allograft dysfunction
Robert Dickson MD
Principal Investigator
Interests: the role of lung and gut microbiota in lung disease and critical illness
Callie Drohan MD
Clinical fellow (Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine)
Interests: the role of the microbiome in critical illness
Nicole Falkowski MS
Laboratory Manager
Interests: experimental study of the microbiome’s role in lung disease and critical illness (in vivo, in vitro, ex vivo)
Ryan Hsieh
Medical student
Interests: the effects of inhaled oxygen on gut microbiota and bacterial translocation
Lilian Maynard
Undergraduate
Interests: animal modeling of the microbiome’s role in sepsis
Brody Mayoras
Undergraduate
Interests: the effect of inhaled oxygen on respiratory microbiota
Andrew Prout MD
Assistant Professor (Pediatric Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Michigan)
Interests: the role of the gut microbiome in pediatric critical illness
Piyush Ranjan MS
Bioinformaticist
Interests: bioinformatics, taxonomic classification of metagenomic sequencing data; nanopore sequencing; pipeline development
Katie Winner
Graduate student (Microbiology & Immunology)
Interests: the role of the gut microbiome in acute kidney injury
Samantha Nichols
Research Laboratory Technician
Interests: experimental study of the microbiome
Former Members
Shanna Ashley PhD
Current position: Senior Scientist, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals
Sanjeev Tyagi MD
Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Reid McCallister
Current position: Internal Medicine resident, University of Colorado
David O’Dwyer MB MCH BAO PhD
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Katie Pendleton MD
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota