Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello
Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University; New Brunswick. She is the Director of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health.[1] Dominguez Bello is a microbial ecologist that has worked on adaptations of gut fermentation organs in animals, gastric colonization by bacteria, assembly of the microbiota in early life, effect of practices that reduce microbiota transmission and colonization in humans, and effect of urbanization. Her lab at Rutgers[2] collaborates in multidisciplinary science, integrating microbiology, immunology, pediatrics, nutrition, anthropology, environmental engineering and architecture/urban studies, and microbial ecology.
Research and service
Dominguez Bello first proposed the idea of restoring the microbiota in C-section born neonates -void of the natural maternal birth canal microbes[3]. [4] She ran the first observational trial and is now involved in a randomized clinical trial to determine effects of restoring natural microbes at birth, on the baby health [5]. She pioneered work showing the loss of human microbiome diversity and change of environmental home microbial exposures associated with urbanization [6] [7] and initiated the efforts to preserve the global human microbiome diversity [8] in a Microbiota Vault, a repository for the future health of humanity.[9]
She became fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellow (FIDSA) in 2008, member of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2013. In 2015 she received the Arturo Carrion Award from the Puerto Rico Society of Microbiology and became member of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America (ACAL) in 2019 she became fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program in Humans & the Microbiome.
An advocate for using technology that respects nature, she also has promoted since 2019 the creation of Baby Friendly Spaces (BFS) at work[10], as a way to improve maternal and infant health, with direct breastfeeding by working mothers, and is a member of the NJ Breastfeeding Coalition.
Education and work
She was born in Caracas, Venezuela on December 3, 1959, went to University Simon Bolivar in Caracas, and did graduate studies in Aberdeen University, Scotland, and a Postdoc in INRA-Theix, France. She worked at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research until 2002. She worked at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan from 2002 to 2012, at NYU from 2012 to 2017, and is currently a professor at Rutgers University, and a leading member of Rutgers University Microbiome Program (RUMP).
References
- ↑ "Rutgers New Jersey IFNH". ifnh.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ↑ "Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello Lab". sites.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ↑ Dominguez-Bello, Maria G.; De Jesus-Laboy, Kassandra M.; Shen, Nan; Cox, Laura M.; Amir, Amnon; Gonzalez, Antonio; Bokulich, Nicholas A.; Song, Se Jin; Hoashi, Marina; Rivera-Vinas, Juana I.; Mendez, Keimari (March 2016). "Partial restoration of the microbiota of cesarean-born infants via vaginal microbial transfer". Nature Medicine. 22 (3): 250–253. doi:10.1038/nm.4039. ISSN 1546-170X. PMC 5062956. PMID 26828196.
- ↑ Song, S (2021). "Restoration of the microbiome trajectory by vaginal seeding of C-section born infants". Med J.
- ↑ Hourigan, Suchitra (2020-08-14). "Vaginal Microbiome Seeding and Health Outcomes in Cesarean-delivered Neonates: a Randomized Controlled Trial". Inova Health Care Services, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Yatsunenko, Tanya; Rey, Federico E.; Manary, Mark J.; Trehan, Indi; Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria; Contreras, Monica; Magris, Magda; Hidalgo, Glida; Baldassano, Robert N.; Anokhin, Andrey P.; Heath, Andrew C. (June 2012). "Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography". Nature. 486 (7402): 222–227. Bibcode:2012Natur.486..222Y. doi:10.1038/nature11053. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 3376388. PMID 22699611.
- ↑ Clemente, Jose C.; Pehrsson, Erica C.; Blaser, Martin J.; Sandhu, Kuldip; Gao, Zhan; Wang, Bin; Magris, Magda; Hidalgo, Glida; Contreras, Monica; Noya-Alarcón, Óscar; Lander, Orlana (2015-04-03). "The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians". Science Advances. 1 (3): e1500183. Bibcode:2015SciA....1E0183C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500183. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4517851. PMID 26229982.
- ↑ Bello, Maria G. Dominguez; Knight, Rob; Gilbert, Jack A.; Blaser, Martin J. (2018-10-05). "Preserving microbial diversity". Science. 362 (6410): 33–34. Bibcode:2018Sci...362...33B. doi:10.1126/science.aau8816. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30287652. S2CID 52919917.
- ↑ "The Microbiota Vault". 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ↑ "Baby Friendly Space Club". rutgers.campuslabs.com. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
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