Matthew Ostrowski

My name is Matt and I study how diet and the gut microbiome influence human health. My long-term goal is to understand how interindividual variation in diet-microbiome interactions mediates human health outcomes so we can design interventions to prevent and treat disease. I graduated as valedictorian with bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and history from North Carolina State University. For my graduate studies at Stanford University as an NSF GRFP and Stanford Graduate Fellow, I joined the lab of Dr. Chaitan Khosla to work on understanding and engineering the biosynthesis of polyketides, an important class of molecules with numerous therapeutic applications. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Eric Martens at the University of Michigan, where I lead several projects on how the microbiome processes dietary and host-derived molecules and how this impacts human health and disease.