Modupe Coker, PhD
Assistant Professor in Oral Biology
Oral Biology and Epidemiology, Rutgers Schools of Dental Medicine and Public Health
Research Focus
My expertise is in the development and natural trajectory of the microbiome in infants and children, and the associations between environmental and dietary exposures, the microbiome, and the interplay with infectious diseases like HIV. I have a specific interest in the predictors of oral disease risk and microbial colonization dynamics in human populations as reflected in microbial genetic sequence variation and health informatics streams with age and overtime. Interdisciplinary approaches I have used in my work include longitudinal analyses, tools in the fields of bioinformatics, microbial ecology and molecular epidemiology.