Abdo Lab

Zaid Abdo, PhD

The Abdo lab is interested in studying the microbiome, its interactions and function, and how it interacts with and affects its hosts' health and is affected by its surrounding environment. This specifically includes studying the relationship between host immune system and the microbiome as it is influenced by external perturbations including vaccination, prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics and other factors such as viral, or other, infections. This is in addition to studying viral evolution in experimental setting and in the wild environment, and plasmid transfer and evolution as it impacts acquisition, transmission and maintenance of antimicrobial resistance. Another interest of the Abdo Lab is focused on developing and applying computational tools for processing and analysis of high throughput sequencing data, and the associated metadata, in addition to developing inferential and predictive models and machine learning methods to facilitate understanding of these complex biological systems.