My research mainly focuses on understanding the response of gut microbiome to novel feed ingredients in production animals and the associations in the diet-microbiome-host axis with the ultimate goal of a sustainable future.

My experience on microbiome research is not limited to diet-microbiome interaction. I have also been working in other projects examining the probiotic effects of bacteriocin-producing bacteria in mice and infant gut, characterizing microbial communities in cervix of sheep to investigate the factors to improve reproduction, and investigating the gut microbiota correlation with maternal exposure to environmental toxins in mice. I have experience on microbiological methods, metagenomics, bioinformatics, integration of multi-omics data as well as cell culture work to study bacterial infection.

In addition to research, I am the director of studies at NMBU for NFR-funded National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials (IBA).

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