Kat Milligan-McClellan
Kat Milligan-McClellan is an American microbiologist. She is Alaskan Native and a member of the Napaaqtugmiut tribe. She specializes in microbiota, specifically how those microbiota affect different fish development. Her research truly reflects who she is, and how she plans to incorporate her Native American heritage into all of her work.
Education
Milligan-McClellan started her secondary education as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. Here she studied medical microbiology.
She is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, and has been there since 2020. Something else that she focuses on is how she uses threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus),
She emphasizes her other research as to why there is such a disproportionate amount of Alaskan Natives affected by diseases that are connected to the gut microbiome, including stomach cancer and diabetes.
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.004
** Focuses on how science can still be shared and talked about, even during the time of COVID-19 and social distancing.
* https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00595-19
** A reflection of Dr. Milligan-McClellan and how she got to the point where she is today.
* https://aem.asm.org/content/early/2018/12/05/AEM.02147-18
** Discusses the host-microbiota relationship, and how it can impact a persons life course.
Education
Milligan-McClellan started her secondary education as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. Here she studied medical microbiology.
She is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, and has been there since 2020. Something else that she focuses on is how she uses threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus),
She emphasizes her other research as to why there is such a disproportionate amount of Alaskan Natives affected by diseases that are connected to the gut microbiome, including stomach cancer and diabetes.
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.004
** Focuses on how science can still be shared and talked about, even during the time of COVID-19 and social distancing.
* https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00595-19
** A reflection of Dr. Milligan-McClellan and how she got to the point where she is today.
* https://aem.asm.org/content/early/2018/12/05/AEM.02147-18
** Discusses the host-microbiota relationship, and how it can impact a persons life course.
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