Welcome!

Hi! I’m a postdoctoral research associate at the Pedicord Lab, University of Cambridge, UK. My research focuses on the gut-brain axis and its potential impacts on health and disease. I completed my PhD in 2024 from the Koide Lab, National Institute of Genetics, Japan, where I investigated how the gut microbiome can influence animal domestication using mice as a model.

Throughout my research journey, I have developed expertise in both wet lab and dry lab techniques, with a particular emphasis on metagenomic analysis. In the wet lab, I specialise in molecular biology and microbiology, with extensive experience in various mouse behaviour analyses and phenotyping. My dry lab expertise includes advanced metagenome analysis, genome assembly, phylogenomics, and analysis of behavioural data, enabling me to extract and interpret complex biological insights from large-scale datasets. Additionally, I have successfully generated bacterial and viral metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) and developed specialised datasets to support microbiome and domestication research.

Feel free to contact me for any inquiries or potential collaborations. You can reach me at bbb27[at]cam.ac.uk
Key words:
metagenomics; microbiome; genomics; behavioural genetics; tameness; gut-brain axis; Limosilactobacillus reuteri