Dr. Loman's interdisciplinary research improves animal and human gastrointestinal and mental health. By understanding how environmental factors such as nutrition and stress alter communication between the resident microbiota, intestine, and brain, his work strives to formulate dietary interventions that reduce gastrointestinal symptoms during functional gastrointestinal disorders, psychological stress, and cancer. Research Interests Microbial regulation of intestinal physiology Dietary modulation of enteric microbial metabolism Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and stress Functional gastrointestinal disorders