
Megan McCurry
@microbe_megan
Microbiologist in biotech | ChemBio PhD ➡️ Postdoc @Harvard @DevlinLab | @RiceUniversity alum | she/her #BiInSci 🌈 (views are my own)
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18-09-2011 03:38:16
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Check it out! So grateful to have been able to lead this project during my time in the Devlin Lab and work with icons like Jasmine Walsh and Gabriel D’Agostino in the Harvard Chemical Biology PhD Program program 🔥


A Cell study on #gut bacteria explores how "bacterial conversion of corticoids into progestins may affect host physiology, particularly in the context of pregnancy and women’s health." Megan McCurry Jasmine Walsh Emily Balskus Jordan Bisanz #microbiota Learn more👇



Bacteria act as architects of host T cell modulators using bile acids Science Magazine ESSAY LinaYao science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…



Incredible work from Yingjia Chen and Snehal Chaudhari!! So excited to see this published!

Excited to share that our work is online Cell Host & Microbe A small intestinal bile acid, taurodeoxycholic acid, is increased after sleeve gastrectomy and decreased in diabetic patients. It improves host metabolism by inhibiting the bacterial production of lithocholic acid.








