Dr. Oleg Paliy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

260 Diggs, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3640 Col. Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45435

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Education:

B.Sc.+M.Sc.: Lviv State University, Lviv, Ukraine. 1992-1997. Genetics and Genetic Engineering.

Ph.D.: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 1997-2001. Microbial Molecular and Structural Biology.

Postdoctoral: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2001-2004. Microbiology and Systems Biology.

• Role of intestinal bacteria in human health and in gastrointestinal diseases such as IBS, colon cancer, and obesity

• Metabolic interactions in complex microbial communities

• Host-microbial interactions and stress responses of pathogenic and commensal Enterobacteria

• Use of metabolic and mathematical modeling to study biological principles

• Standard microbiology techniques

• Standard molecular biology methods

• Gene expression profiling with microarrays and qPCR

• Microbial community analysis by 16S RNA sequencing, phylogenetic microarrays, FISH, and in vitro systems

• Bioinformatics and computational biology

• Biostatistics and phylogenetic analysis
  

• Paper published:

  V. Shankar, R. Agans, B. Holmes, M. Raymer, and O. Paliy. Do gut microbial communities differ in pediatric IBS and health? (2013) Gut Microbes, 4(4): 347–352.

• Paper published:

  B. Withman, T.S. Gunasekera, P. Beesetty, R. Agans, and O. Paliy. Transcriptional responses of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to increased environmental osmolality caused by salt or urea (2013) Infect. Immun., 81(1): 80-89.

• Student grant award:

  Christina Roth, a talented undergraduate student in the lab, has received an Undergraduate Research Grant award from WSU for Fall semester of 2012.

• Paper published:

  L. Rigsbee, R. Agans, V. Shankar, H. Kenche, H. Khamis, S. Michail, and O. Paliy. Quantitative profiling of gut microbiota of children with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (2012) Am. J. Gastroenterol., 107: 1740-51.

• Student grant awards:

  Richard Agans and Vijay Shankar, PhD students in the lab, have both received an Original Work Grant from WSU Graduate Student Assembly for 2012 year.

• Paper published:

  O. Paliy and R. Agans. Application of phylogenetic microarrays to interrogation of human microbiota (2012) FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 79(1):2-11.

• Paper published:

  O. Paliy and B. Foy. Mathematical modeling of 16S ribosomal DNA amplification reveals optimal conditions for the interrogation of complex microbial communities with phylogenetic microarrays (2011) Bioinformatics, 27(15): 2134-40.

• Paper published:

  R. Agans, L. Rigsbee, H. Kenche, S. Michail, H.J. Khamis, and O. Paliy. Distal gut microbiota of adolescent children is different from that of adults (2011) FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 77(2): 404-12.

• Student presents poster:

  V. Shankar, L. Rigsbee, H. Kenche, S. Michail, and O. Paliy Effects of VSL#3 on the composition of intestinal microbiota in IBS-D patients. FASEB Probiotics, Intestinal Microbiota and the Host, Carefree, AZ, 2011

• Paper published:

  L. Rigsbee, R. Agans, B. Foy, and O. Paliy. Optimizing the analysis of human intestinal microbiota with phylogenetic microarray (2011) FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 75:332-42.

• Student grant award:

  Rebekah Bogard, an undergraduate student in the lab, has received an Undergraduate Research Support Grant award from WSU for 2011 year.

• Student award:

  Laura Rigsbee, a masters student in the lab, has received a Wright State University Graduate Student Excellence Award for the 2009/10 academic year.

• NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant [2013-2015] "Establishment of next-generation sequencing facility at WSU"

• WSU BSoM Emerging Science Program [2013-2014] "Gut microbiota in children of developing world"

• Procter & Gamble Research Grant [2011-2016] "Studies of human gut microbiota"

• WSU BSoM Research Challenge [2011-2012] "High-throughput detection of quantitative differences in intestinal microbiota in patients with colorectal cancer and advanced adenomatous polyps"

• NIH NICHD [2010-2013] "Quantitative measurements of intestinal metabolites in healthy and IBS children"

• Procter & Gamble Research Grant [2010-2011] "DNA extraction from fecal material"

• NIH NCCAM [2008-2011] "Using Affymetrix Microflora array to study microflora composition in children with IBS"

• WSU SoM Research Challenge [2007-2008] "Design and implementation of custom GeneChip community microarray to study human microflora"