Emily Davenport
Biography
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, USA, 2014
B.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA, 2007
Postdoctoral 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.