From Probiotics to Prebiotics：Identifying the Genetic Underpinnings of Niche in Human Gut Bacteria

 

Time:  2016-1-6 10:30-11:30

Place:  病理楼二层中厅

Host:  吴聪颖研究员

Speaker：Meng Wu, PhD

Education:  Ph.D. Human and Statistical Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

B.S.Biological Science, Tsinghua University, China

 

Research Experience:

？2015-present      Research Scientist, Department of Clinical Informatics Solutions & Services,

    Philips Research North America, MA

 

？2015-present      Visiting Scholar, Department of Pathology and Immunology,Washington University in St. Louis, MO

 

？2015-present      Visiting Scholar, Healthy Birth Growth and Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

？2014-2015          Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Gut Microbiome and NutritionResesarch,

  Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

？2009-2014          Research Assistant, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology,

   Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Selected Publications:

1.  Wu, M., McNulty, N.P., Rodionov, D.A., Khoroshkin, M. S., Griffin, N. W., Cheng, J., Latreille, P., Kerstetter, R.A., Terrapon, N., Henrissat, B., Osterman, A. L. and Gordon, J.I. (2015) Genetic determinants of in vivo fitness and diet responsiveness in multiple human gut Bacteroides. Science,

2.  Chen, S.L.*, Wu, M.*, Henderson, J.P., Hooton, T.M., Hibbing, M.E., Hultgren, S.J., and Gordon, J.I. (2013). Genomic diversity and fitness of E.coli strains recovered from the intestinal and urinary tracts of women with recurrent urinary tract infection. Science Translational Medicine, *Contributed equally

3.  Reyes, A., Wu, M., McNulty, N.P., Rohwer, F.L., and Gordon, J.I. (2013). Gnotobiotic mouse model of phage-bacterial host dynamics in the human gut. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

4.  Goodman, A., Wu, M., and Gordon, J.I. (2011). Identifying microbial fitness determinants by insertion sequencing using genome-wide transposon mutant libraries.Nature Protocols

 

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