STARDOM Award
“Fructose Hyperabsorption Phenotype and Multicompartment Microbiome Dysbiosis in MASLD - a Precure Precision Medicine Approach” was selected for STARDOM (Stimulating and Advancing Research in DOM).
Lab news
New work.
New milestones.
Awards, press coverage, papers and preprints from our lab.
2026 Recognition
Awards & honors
2026 Florida Translational Capital Equipment Award
Dr. John Gubatan is part of the award team for an Emulate Organoid Gut-on-Chip platform to model inflammatory and metabolic gastrointestinal diseases using patient-derived intestinal organoids under physiologic flow. His contribution focuses on inflammatory bowel disease.
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Our research in the news
In the press
Inside Precision Medicine
Press coverageVitamin D May Help Restore Immune Tolerance in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inside Precision Medicine highlights our study of vitamin D and immune tolerance in inflammatory bowel disease.
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April 2, 202612 weeks of vitamin D helps ‘reset’ immune system in people with IBD
Medical News Today covers the vitamin D study and interviews Dr. John Gubatan about its findings and next steps.
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March 30, 2026Vitamin D linked to immune response to gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease
The Microbiologist reports on our findings about vitamin D and immune responses to gut bacteria.
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Papers & preprints
Preprint
Tissue environments
How intestinal support cells shape inflammation
Human tissue profiling, spatial imaging and experimental models connect the local fibroblast environment to neutrophil behavior in ulcerative colitis.
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Adaptive immunity
Connecting immune history to cell behavior
A single-cell blood atlas links B- and T-cell receptor features to coordinated immune programs in inflammatory bowel disease, creating a resource for studying adaptive immune states.
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Computational immunology
New tools for immune receptor discovery
Our collaborative immuneML work introduces reproducible workflows for discovering structure in adaptive immune receptor datasets, including clustering and generative modeling.
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Immune–microbe interactions
Vitamin D and the immune–microbiome dialogue
Our multi-omics study connects vitamin D treatment with changes in antibody-coated gut bacteria and immune pathways associated with tolerance in inflammatory bowel disease.
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