April 11, 2023 - Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D., Dietary Lipids in Infant Nutrition and Gut Microbiome Function

Speaker Biography

Dr. Liz Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.  Her work focuses on understanding how sphingolipid production by the gut microbiome influences host phenotypes, as well as how the sphingolipid content of host diets affects the establishment of the microbiome.  She studied biology at Spelman College before pursuing a Ph.D. investigating cell cycle transcriptomics at Princeton University.  Liz went on to study lipid-dependent host-microbe interactions during her postdoctoral training in the lab of Ruth Ley before joining the faculty at Cornell in 2018.

The Johnson Lab has expertise in genomic, lipidomic, and molecular biology-based methods for understanding how bioactive lipids shape host-microbe interactions. Current projects in the lab focus on host-microbe molecule exchange and bioactive lipids in infant nutrition.