Deva D. Chan

Abstract The gut microbiome interacts with many systems throughout the human body. Microbiome disruption reduces bone tissue mechanics but paradoxically slows osteoarthritis progression. The microbiome also mediates inflammatory and immune responses, including serum cytokines. Towards studying how the gut microbiome interacts with synovial joint health and disease ("gut-joint axis"), we examined how antibiotics-induced changes to microbial taxa abundance associated to serum cytokine levels.

Abstract The stability of the knee joint is an important indicator of its overall health and function. Joint stability depends on multiple structural and functional properties that include the anatomy of the underlying bones, the geometry and stiffness of the joint capsule and the soft tissues within like tendon, ligaments, cartilage and meniscus.

We provide a roadmap for overhauling faculty-hiring processes to eliminate barriers of entry to historically excluded groups. Academic faculty strongly contributes to the advancement of scientific research and to the higher education of the workforce. Insufficient diversity in the professoriate cripples this mission. Homogeneous teams are less innovative and less effective than diverse teams1,2. This means that, as a profession, faculty is underperforming.