Jethro Johnson

Jethro Johnson is an Innovation Track Principal Investigator at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies (OCMS) at the University of Oxford. His work integrates computational genomics and microbiome research to explore host-microbiome interactions in health and disease.

• PhD in Nutritional Ecology (University of Auckland, 2012)
• MRC Career Development Fellowship
• Former postdoctoral researcher at Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Research focuses on:

• Mechanistic understanding of gut microbiome impacts on metabolic diseases
• Multi-omic data integration for host-microbiome studies
• Computational approaches to microbiome analysis
• Methodological developments in 16S rRNA gene profiling

Publications emphasize microbiome-disease associations, methodological innovations, and computational genomics applications across human and mouse models. Key themes include metabolic dysfunction, immune interactions, and microbial diversity analysis.

Scientific recognition includes:

• MRC Career Development Fellowship in Computational Genomics

As OCMS Deputy Director, he contributes to advancing microbiome research infrastructure and collaborative projects while leading his own computational genomics group at the Kennedy Institute.