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Jake received his B.S. in Biochemistry from UW-Madison in 2020 where he studied the regulation of skeletal muscle mass in the lab of Dr. Troy Hornberger. He enjoys camping, hiking, biking, and any other activity that gets him outdoors. He also has a dog named Louie that keeps him on his toes.
Gut microbes exhibit complex relationships with dietary components and play a dynamic role in liver health. My work aims to understand how the gut microbiome responds to a common Western dietary component, cholesterol, and how this response shapes the hepatic immune environment and the progression from simple steatosis to fibrosis during the development of Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).
NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship
Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award
AGA Basic Science Travel Award
ASBMB Graduate Travel Award
NIH T32 (MANTP)