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Geoff Preidis

Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University

Year: Fourth-Year Graduate Student

Mentor: James Versalovic, M.D., Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Immunomodulation by Probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri in Acute Rotaviral Gastroenteritis

Publications:

Preidis GA, Versalovic J. Targeting the human microbiome with antibiotics, probiotics, and prebiotics: Gastroenterology enters the metagenomics era. Gastroenterol. 2009; 136(6):2015-31.

Preidis GA, Wang HC, Lewis DE, Castellanos-Gonzalez A, Rogers KA, Graviss EA, Ward HD, White AC Jr. Seropositive human subjects produce interferon gamma after stimulation with recombinant Cryptosporidium hominis gp15. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007 Sep; 77(3):583-5.