Personalizing wellness through the science of the microbiome
Meet Our Team
Maggie Stanislawski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Maggie Stanislawski is a molecular epidemiologist at the University of 麻豆传媒高清 School of Medicine, and her work aims to understand the role of the gut microbiome and related molecular profiles in health and disease, specifically obesity, cardiometabolic disease, and inflammatory conditions.
Before completing her PhD in Epidemiology with the 麻豆传媒高清 School of Public Health, Dr. Stanislawski completed her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at Pomona College and a master’s degree in Statistics at 麻豆传媒高清 State University. She was also a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Tanzania, where she taught secondary school mathematics. In her spare time, she likes to hike, backpack, travel, and cook.
Ashley Scadden, BS, MSc
Information Sciences Professional
Scadden has been a part of the CU community since 2014, earning her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry at the University of 麻豆传媒高清 at 麻豆传媒高清 Springs. Her thesis focused on exploring how epigenetic marks affect the genomic organization of Neurospora crassa. She joined the Stanislawski Lab in the summer of 2022.
Emily Yeo
Postdoctoral Trainee
Yeo is from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She completed her master's degree in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition from Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy in Boston, and an undergraduate biochemistry degree prior to that at the University of Stellenbosch. With interests in epidemiology and public health, genomics, nutrition, and the gut microbiome, her work currently focuses on leveraging multi-omic health data to predict human health trajectories.
Our Publications
Our Research
We evaluate the role of the microbiome, and other omic pathways, in the response to clinical interventions
We partner with clinical dietary and exercise intervention studies in order to understand how these interventions impact the microbiome and related molecular profiles, such as metabolomics and DNA methylation. We use advanced statistical methods and quantitative epidemiology to investigate the role of molecular profiles in the response to the interventions with the hope of understanding how to personalize approaches to diet and exercise for optimal cardiometabolic health.
We aim to answer questions such as:
1. How do different dietary approaches, such as intermittent fasting versus a standard calorie reduction diet, affect the microbiome?
2. Do dietary changes affect different people differently, based on their baseline microbiota profile?
3. Do changes in the microbiome mediate weight loss or cardiometabolic improvements during a dietary intervention?
Investigating omic pathways in diverse populations
We aim to understand how the relationship between molecular profiles, such as genetics, the microbiome, DNA methylation, and metabolomic profiles, vary across diverse populations, and to leverage this understanding to investigate their role in cardiometabolic and inflammatory diseases. We do this using data from large epidemiological cohort studies and biobanks, evaluating how factors such as race/ethnicity, diet, age, and socioeconomic status impact the association of genetic and other omic profiles with cardiometabolic conditions.
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