Sid Venkatesh Publishes Co-First Authored Paper in Science
While at Washington University in St. Louis, Venkatesh and colleagues identified a novel gut microbial enzyme that impacts satiety-related signaling pathways in undernourished children treated with microbiota-directed complementary foods.
ISB Assistant Professor Dr. Sid Venkatesh is the co-first author of a paper in the journal Science.
Following his 2019 work, where he co-led the development of a new class of nutritional interventions, microbiota-directed complementary foods (MDCFs), Venkatesh and Dr. Jiye Cheng (co-first author on the recent paper) identified a novel gut microbial enzyme that impacts satiety-related signaling pathways in undernourished children treated with MDCFs.
Venkatesh made the discovery as a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon’s laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined ISB’s faculty in September 2023 and runs the Venkatesh Lab, where he and his research group develop experimental tools and approaches to explore host-microbiome and host-pathogen interactions.
He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington and is an active member of UW’s Microbial Interactions and Microbiome Center (mim_c) community.
