Brett R. Loman, Ph.D.

Dr. Brett Loman's interdisciplinary research improves animal and human gastrointestinal and mental health. By understanding how environmental factors such as nutrition and stress alter communication between the resident microbiota, intestine, and brain, his work strives to formulate dietary interventions that reduce gastrointestinal symptoms during functional gastrointestinal disorders, psychological stress, and cancer.
Affiliations: Loman is an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is affiliated with the Division of Nutritional Sciences, also part of ACES, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.