Michael L Goodson

Michael L Goodson

Associate Project Scientist

Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology


Education
1993, BS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2000, PhD, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical School, Lexington, KY
2006, Postdoctoral Training, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Active Research Grants
Other, National Centers for Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes (MPMOD), KC Kent Lloyd (Principal Investigator), National Institutes of Health
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2009 Goodson ML: Model Organisms for Life Science Research, Katherine E. Cullen, (ed), Encyclopedia of Life Science, New York, NY. 674-5.
Research Focus
Metabolic Physiology and the Gut Microbiome: The long-term aim of my research is to understand how organisms integrate the myriad of diet, endocrine and environmental signals to coherently regulate energy homeostasis and to understand how disruption of this homeostasis leads to different metabolic pathologies. I am currently interested in understanding how bidirectional interactions between the host and microorganisms within the host control a diverse array of metabolic and other physiologic processes and how perturbations in these interactions leads to various diseases.
Specialty Focus
The focus of my research involves exploring how macronutrients and other factors within the foods we eat interact with both the intestinal tissue and intestinal microbita to alter both neurobiology of feeding behavior and glucose homeostatic control and understanding how dysregulation by these diet components leads to metabolic pathologies, including diabetes and obesity. To accomplish this, I use various mouse models of obesity, diabetes and gut-brain signalling.
Ten Recent Publications

2023
Sandoval S, Malany K, Thongphanh K, Martinez CA, Goodson ML, Souza FDC, Lin LW, Pennington J, Lein PJ, Kerkvliet NI, Ehrlich AK
Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor inhibits neuropilin-1 upregulation on IL-2 responding CD4 + T cells.

2022
Chaffin AT, Larson KR, Huang KP, Wu CT, Godoroja N, Fang Y, Jayakrishnan D, Soto Sauza KA, Sims LC, Mohajerani N, Goodson ML, Ryan KK
FGF21 controls hepatic lipid metabolism via sex-dependent interorgan crosstalk.

2021
Heiss BE, Ehrlich AM, Maldonado-Gomez MX, Taft DH, Larke JA, Goodson ML, Slupsky CM, Tancredi DJ, Raybould HE, Mills DA
Bifidobacterium catabolism of human milk oligosaccharides overrides endogenous competitive exclusion driving colonization and protection.

2020
Ehrlich AM, Pacheco AR, Henrick BM, Taft D, Xu G, Huda MN, Mishchuk D, Goodson ML, Slupsky C, Barile D, Lebrilla CB, Stephensen CB, Mills DA, Raybould HE
Indole-3-lactic acid associated with Bifidobacterium-dominated microbiota significantly decreases inflammation in intestinal epithelial cells.