PhD student Nate Korth earns the NFHC honor for his research in the associations between plant genetics and perturbation of the human gut microbiome. After receiving his undergraduate degree from UNL in Food Science & Technology he entered the Complex Biosystems program and joined the Benson & Schnable labs in Food Science & Agronomy.
NFHC students are recruited through the Complex Biosystems program. As the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s newest degree-granting graduate program, the Complex Biosystems program is designed for students wanting a non-traditional degree program.
The Complex Biosystems program embodies the combination of interdisciplinary research and quantitative and computational approaches that are heavily emphasized in the Nebraska Food for Health Center.
The Complex Biosystems program is an umbrella program that comprises five different specializations (Microbial interactions, integrated plant biology, pathobiology and biomedical science, systems analysis, and computational organismal biology, ecology, and evolution). NFHC Graduate Fellows are recruited preferentially through the Microbial interactions umbrella and do their rotations among NFHC member laboratories with the expectation that the major professor is ultimately an NFHC member.
To learn more about the program visit: https://bigdata.unl.edu/phd-program