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Biologist Karen Guillemin is an internationally recognized academic expert in microbiology and cell and development biology and host-microbe systems, and is developing new models to define host-microbe interactions in development and disease. She examines how hosts and their associated microbial communities shape each other, with the goal of understanding the principles by which complex host-microbe systems function and to learn how they can be manipulated to promote the health of human systems. Guillemin pioneered the use of zebrafish to study host-microbe interactions, including the influence of the gut microbiome on development, metabolism, and immunity.
Recent Media:
- New UO study is unraveling the affects of bad gut bacteria (KGW, Jan. 6, 2025)
- How a common stomach bug causes cancer (The Atlantic, Oct. 19, 2023)
- Study shows how the gut’s nervous system affects microbes (OregonNews, Feb. 14, 2022)
- Biologist Karen Guillemin named as a fellow in the AAAS (OregonNews, Nov. 30, 2020)
- Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways (The Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2020)
- UO biologist Karen Guillemin named to national academy (OregonNews, April 24, 2020)
- Beneficial Microbe Hunter (Oregon Quarterly, April 14, 2020)
- Local researcher from U of O is at the forefront of cancer research (KVAL News, June 25, 2019)
- Everything Worth Knowing About ... Microbiomes (Discover Magazine, June 1, 2016)
- Exploring the microbiome (eew) (Jefferson Public Radio, March 28, 2016)
- You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin (TED-Ed, Jan. 7, 2013)