Conceptualizes, designs, implements and directs research projects focused generally on how cancer treatments impact physiology to alter neurobiology and behavior, specifically on how fecal gut microbiome may be used as an intervention to ameliorate chemotherapy side effects using both mouse models to study mechanisms and human subjects for translation; develops, adopts and implements new laboratory methods; develops hypotheses and experimental approaches to hypothesis testing; plans, designs and conducts complex experiments in mice and culture preparations; maintains and develops mouse colonies; extracts, compiles, analyzes and evaluates data; prepares figures and writes manuscripts, articles, abstracts and research reports for publication in peer-reviewed journals; may attend and prese