Zaid Abdo

Zaid Abdo is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University, where he leads the Abdo Lab within the CSU Microbiome Network. His research focuses on microbial community dynamics, host-microbe interactions, and antimicrobial resistance evolution.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computational Biology (University of Idaho, 2005), Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistical Genetics (McMaster University, 2006)

The Abdo Lab develops computational tools for high-throughput sequence data analysis while investigating:

• Microbiome-immune system cross-talk under environmental perturbations
• Plasmid transfer mechanisms in antimicrobial resistance
• Oral probiotic vaccine vector efficacy
• Machine learning applications for microbiome datasets

Recent publications analyze raccoon rabies genomics, Salmonella persistence in poultry litter, and FIV impacts on feline oral microbiomes. The lab has received USDA funding for microbiome-pathogen research and maintains active GitHub repositories like Tychus and Microbiome-Analysis-R.