Noah Hutchinson

Noah earned his BS in exercise science and biology from Truman State University, then completed a PhD in nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied the gut-brain axis and the influence of the microbiota on exercise motivation and inflammation. After initial postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in engineering probiotics to manipulate microbial function in the gut, Noah joined the Kostic lab to continue his NIH-funded F32 postdoctoral work.
Leveraging the exchange of lactate between the microbiota and the host, Noah is currently exploring and manipulating the ability of the microbiota to provide energy to the host and regulate its expenditure in health and disease. Combining computational microbiome analyses with methods in microbiology, synthetic biology, in vivo disease modeling, and metabolic phenotyping, he examines the physiologic implications of defined functional perturbations at the systems level. He aims to use this iterative approach to develop therapeutic strategies and unravel the complexities of host-microbe mutualism.