Graduate Student
University of Maryland, College Park
I am Victor Moronge Mochama from Kenya—a graduate student at the University of Maryland College Park. I am at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and I work in Diana Obanda's lab. My research focuses on gut microbiota and its contribution to health especially in curbing diet-induced obesity. Currently, I working towards screening three Clostridium species bacteria (Clostridium vincenti, Clostriicum disporicum and Clostridium celatum) to determine their potential use as probiotics. My long-term goal is to look at ways to have a diverse gut microbiota that will foster human health.