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David Riglar is an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, specializing in Engineering Biology in the Department of Infectious Disease within the Faculty of Medicine. His research focuses on the gut microbiota, which plays a critical role in maintaining health, with alterations linked to various diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer, and diabetes. His lab combines synthetic biology, imaging, and sequencing techniques to explore the functions of gut microbiota in health and disease, developing innovative technologies and engineered probiotics to control the gut environment. David has held prestigious fellowships such as the Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship and has completed a postdoc at Harvard Medical School's Wyss Institute. His academic journey includes a PhD from the University of Melbourne where he researched malaria parasites using advanced imaging. Riglar invites collaborators interested in this exciting field to reach out for discussion.
Harvard Medical School • United States
Conducted research on synthetic biology approaches to engineer bacteria for probing the mammalian gut environment.
Imperial College London • United Kingdom
Leading a lab focused on understanding gut microbiota and developing innovative probiotic technologies.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.