Emily Davenport
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Assistant Professor of Biology
305 Wartik LaboratoryUniversity Park, PA 16802
Email:
exd44@psu.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, USA, 2014
- B.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA, 2007
Postdoc Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, USA, 2014 - 2019
- Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck for Developmental Biology, Germany, 2018 - 2019
Research Interests
The Davenport lab seeks to understand the complex relationship humans have with our microbiomes. What determines gut microbiome composition? Does the microbiome affect our health? What's the evolutionary relationship humans have with our microbiomes? We answer these questions using a genomic perspective, with high-throughput microbiome and metagenomic sequencing technologies and novel computational and statistical techniques.