I am broadly interested in how aspects of both modern and ancestral human diets can impact the gut microbial community and how shifts away from ancestral diets may have shaped the modern human gut microbiome and its energy harvesting capacity. I am currently exploring these topics by looking at how ancestral and modern sources of dietary polyphenols affect different microbes through in vitro and in vivo experiments. In the fall I will be attending the Yale School of Public Health to study the epidemiology of microbial diseases and I hope to continue examining the interplay between the gut microbiome and host health through a new lens.