Professor Sue Ishaq

Associate Professor, Founder and Lead, MSE, University of Maine

Dr. Sue Ishaq is an Associate Professor of Microbiomes, University of Maine; and founded MSE in 2020.  She received her doctorate in Animal, Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont in 2015 where she focused on the rumen microbiology of the moose.  She held post-doctoral positions at Montana State University, and a research faculty position at the University of Oregon.  Over the years, her research has gone from wild animal gut microbiomes, to soils, to buildings, and back to the gut. Since 2019, her lab in Maine focuses on host-associated microbial communities in animals and humans, and in particular, how host and microbes interact in the gut and can be harnessed to reduce inflammation. She is also the early-career At Large member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Microbiology, 2024- 2027.