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Raghuveer Parthasarathy is a biophysicist who explores the physical structure of living things and how the laws and principles of physics govern how life works. Elected as a 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Parthasarathy鈥檚 current research focuses on the organization of the zebrafish gut microbiome to answer fundamental questions about how gut microbes interact with each other and their host to shape an ecosystem that influences the overall health of the organism. Parthasarathy鈥檚 lab uses microscopy and 3D imaging to understand how perturbations to the microbiome from sources such as the introduction of new microbial species or antibiotics affect the system鈥檚 structure.

Dr. Allen received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Exercise Physiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Allen followed his PhD by completing a 3-year postdoctoral program in microbiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Allen’s research program concentrates on specific environmental interventions and conditions— 1. Exercise 2. Psychological Stress and 3. Diet—that influence gut microbial communities (the gut microbiota) during both homeostatic and pathological disease states. Ultimately, Dr. Allen’s lab is aiming to provide a new perspective into how environmental conditions interact to modify the gut microbiota, with the ultimate goal of leveraging this knowledge to improve human health.