• Meli'sa Crawford
  • Meli'sa Crawford
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department: Department of Animal Sciences
  • Graduate Program(s): Cell & Developmental Biology
  • Major Research Interest(s): Metabolism / Nutrition, Microbiome
  • Research Techniques: Cell Biology, Metabolomics
  • Research Organism(s): in vitro, Mice
  • Rotation Faculty
  • Phone: 1.8489326389
  • School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
  • Foran Hall
  • 59 Dudley Road
  • New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
  • Key Words: Gut Physiology, Epithelial barrier function, gut microbiome, Gut-Lung axis

As a gut physiologist and supporter of agricultural processes, I am interested in examining how environmental exposures like agricultural dust and ambient air pollution disrupt the gut barrier, trigger inflammation, and alter the microbiome.