Kristina Martinez-Guryn

Dr. Kristina Martinez-Guryn is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Sciences Department at Midwestern University's College of Graduate Studies - Illinois. Her research focuses on gut microbiota's role in metabolism, obesity, and metabolic disorders. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2011) and completed a postdoc at the University of Chicago (2012-2017). She teaches courses like Principles of Biostatistics and Nutrition Therapy.

• Education:
  • B.S., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2006)
  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2011)
  • Dietetic Internship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2012)

Her lab investigates how gut microbes regulate lipid absorption, liver metabolism, and obesity resistance. Key projects include studying the interplay between the Constitutive Androstane Receptor (CAR) and gut microbiota in metabolic dysfunction. She has secured grant funding, including an NIH R21 grant (2022-2025) exploring gut mycobiota's role in lipid absorption.

Dr. Martinez-Guryn has published extensively on microbiome-related topics, with recent work examining microbiota transplants' metabolic impacts and microbiome contamination in clinical settings. She actively collaborates on interdisciplinary research and mentors students in biomedical sciences programs.