APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CREATION OF GUT MICROBIAL BIOMARKER PANEL ENABLING PERSONALIZED NUTRITION RECOMMENDATIONS

Training objectives are tobroadenresearch skills,enhance leadership skills,strengthen science communication to a variety of audiences, andcontinue to deepen my collaborative abilities.The overall research objective is toidentify microbial biomarkers of specific, whole food intake using advanced analytic techniques.Objective One: Validate the use of post-intervention microbial genes and metabolites through the addition of pre-intervention measures of the same outcomes.Objective Two: Create a biomarker panel of each of the sixindividual foodscomprised of microbes, their genes, and metabolites.