Santosh
Lamichhane
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Areas of expertise
Gut microbial metabolism-
Multivariate data analysis
Reverse Metabolomics- Molecular networking
Biography
Santosh Lamichhane is the Principal Investigator in the Infection and Immunity Unit at the Institute of Biomedicine. He is a Research Council of Finland Academy Research Fellow and holds the title of Docent (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Metabolomics at the Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku. As part of his research fellowship, Dr. Lamichhane investigates the relationship between gut microbiota, lipids, and their clinical effects in early childhood.
Lamichhane was a Visiting Researcher at The Dorrestein Lab, University of California, San Diego, where he gained expertise in reverse and repository-scale metabolomics to better understand microbial chemistry and its influence on human metabolism.
Teaching
Metabolomics lecture in Systems biology (SYS21012), Modern biotechnologies and bioinformatics course (BIOT1524), Bioanalytical Techniques (CHEMI6429) at University of Turku.
Research
Lamichhane's research interest lies in the interface of human health, diet and gut microbial activity. He heads a research group (Gut Microbiomics) at Intitute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine. https://sites.utu.fi/gutmicrobiomics/
The focus of his group is to explore microbial derived small molecules in the gut and their influence on human health. By integrating advanced laboratory techniques such as metabolomics, gut organoids, and microbial cultures with computational analysis, we investigate the chemical interactions between gut microbes and their impact on the host.