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.
Program Faculty
- 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
- Email:
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- Foran Hall
- 59 Dudley Road
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
- Key Words: Gut Physiology, Epithelial barrier function, gut microbiome, Gut-Lung axis