Our lab is now open for business at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota! We're looking for a post-doctoral fellow, interested in working at the interface of diet, microbiome and gut/liver disease. Send me a message if you want to learn more!

🆕 Review examines immune dysfunction and infection risk in advanced #liver disease. Read the full article here: www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...

Incredibly honored to be selected as a @bwfund.bsky.social Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease. Thank you to @bwfund.bsky.social for supporting our work - I am thrilled to join this amazing community! And special thank you to my AMAZING team (past & present) for getting us here!

Check out this new work from the Center for Microbial Medicine(@centermicrobialmed.bsky.social) and @upenn.edu! Amanda PeBenito @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @joeyzacks.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and team show that dietary fiber alters risk for C. diff infection following antibiotics.

Excited to share our new work in @aga-gastro.bsky.social! We show that dietary fiber alters the window of susceptibility to C. difficile following antibiotic exposure. This really fantastic study was co-led by an amazing team @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and Amanda PeBenito.

Congratulations to the @apsphysiology.bsky.social GI & Liver Section Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Award recipient, Dr. Gail Hecht! 🎉🍾 #GIsky #Gastrosky #GIresearch

Super proud of my former lab mate and friend. It’s been amazing to witness this journey from the very beginning to the grand finale hehehe. Thrilled to be a part of it-Congratulations, Sree! ☺️ 🎉🎉🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbohydrate consumption drives adaptive mutations in Escherichia coli associated with increased risk for systemic infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645536v1

I'm excited to share our new pre-print on how the drug lactulose drives evolution and systemic infection of pathobionts from the gut! Thanks to all of the incredible folks who worked on this project and our amazing collaborators!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...