Overview

USF Microbiome Research

Our body harbors 10 times for microbes than human cells. Our gut has many neurons as our brain has, so it is a second brain in our body, explains the gut feeling theory. Recent research shows that community of microbes (“microbiome) living in our gut is significantly different individuals who has normal cognitive versus those with cognitive decline and dementia.

Current Projects

Biomarker Discovery

The Microbiome in aging Gut and Brain (MiaGB) is a multi-university collaborative consortium project, which is paving the way to determine risk of age-related cognitive decline and dementia based on the microbiome of our oral cavity and gut.

We are actively recruiting participants who are 60 years or older and have concerns about memory and brain health. You can also participate if you are cognitively healthy.

If you are interested in learning more and participating in this study, please contact:

Dr. Hariom Yadav - hyadav@usf.edu
Shalini Jain - jains10@usf.edu
Personalized Food for Brain Health

The “Food for Mood” program aims to design innovative functional foods to improve and preserve brain health. Our team of expert scientists has designed these food technologies and tested them for their efficacy. The overall goals of this project are to bring the science in the form of clinically proven foods for improving brain health and preserving it longer during aging.

If you are interested in learning more and participating in this study, please contact:

Dr. Hariom Yadav - hyadav@usf.edu
Shalini Jain - jains10@usf.edu
Personalized Nutrition

Do you want to know which diet can help and/or hurt our health during aging? We have a research study ongoing to determine the impact of diets we eat on the gut microbiome thus on health. This study uses our patent-pending microbiome screening scheme to determine which diets have beneficial versus detrimental effects on the personalized microbiome, that can impact our short- and long-term aging health.

If you are interested in learning more and participating in this study, please contact:

Dr. Hariom Yadav - hyadav@usf.edu
Shalini Jain - jains10@usf.edu
Personalized Nutrition

We have patent-pending formulations to mix the probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics in both cow milk, as well as in plant-based milk(s) customize yogurt drinks based on personalized microbiome signature combined with MoPED study results.

If you are interested in learning more and participating in this study, please contact:

Dr. Hariom Yadav - hyadav@usf.edu
Shalini Jain - jains10@usf.edu
Food as Medicine

This study is testing the efficacy of a ketogenic diet in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to enhance recovery in the intensive care unit by modulating microbiome and inflammation. This is a team effort between the scientists at the CEABR (Drs. Shalini Jain and Hariom Yadav) and USF Neurosurgery (Drs. Jennifer Glover and Keith Dombrowski).

If you are interested in learning more and participating in this study, please contact:

Dr. Hariom Yadav - hyadav@usf.edu
Shalini Jain - jains10@usf.edu

Microbiomes Institute

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USF Microbiome Research

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Current Projects

Biomarker Discovery

Personalized Food for Brain Health

Personalized Nutrition

Personalized Nutrition

Food as Medicine