Dr. Austin Marshall | Treangen lab at Rice University

Austin (postdoctoral fellow) received his BS in Biomolecular Science and PhD in Biotechnology from Clarkson University. As a graduate student, he researched applications of nanopore sequencing technology on many environmental sample types. His projects included low-biomass aerosol sampling and analysis as well as spatial characterization of water microbiomes from the St. Lawrence River see more about the Lampsilis 2022 mission here. Nearing the end of his PhD, Austin interned at NASA Johnson Space Center with the JSC microbiology team where he performed temporal evaluation of microbiomes within dust samples from the International Space Station using both amplicon and metagenomic nanopore sequencing.

In January of 2024, Austin joined our collaborators in the Villapol Lab at Houston Methodist Research Institute. He was recently awarded the NLM BMI postdoctoral fellowship NIH T15 LM007093-32 leading him to work closely with the Treangen Lab and receive formal training in biomedical informatics and data science. One of his main interests is applying bioinformatics to better understand the relationship of microbes to their environment and host. In his free time, Austin enjoys fishing, pickleball, and gardening with his partner Lauren and dog Cooper.

A few of Austin’s recent publications: (Marshall et al., 2024; Flinn et al., 2024; Holcomb et al., 2024).

References

2024

Application of nanopore sequencing for accurate identification of bioaerosol-derived bacterial colonies

Austin Marshall, Daniel T. Fuller, Paul Dougall, and 3 more authors

Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2024

Bib

@article{marshall2024aerobiome,
  title = {Application of nanopore sequencing for accurate identification of bioaerosol-derived bacterial colonies},
  author = {Marshall, Austin and Fuller, Daniel T. and Dougall, Paul and Kumaragama, Kavindra and Dhaniyala, Suresh and Sur, Shantanu},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Environ. Sci.: Atmos.},
  publisher = {RSC},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {754--766}
}

Antibiotic treatment induces microbiome dysbiosis and reduction of neuroinflammation following traumatic brain injury in mice.

Hannah Flinn, Austin Marshall, Morgan Holcomb, and 4 more authors

bioRxiv, 2024

Bib

@article{flinn2024antibiotic,
  title = {Antibiotic treatment induces microbiome dysbiosis and reduction of neuroinflammation following traumatic brain injury in mice.},
  author = {Flinn, Hannah and Marshall, Austin and Holcomb, Morgan and Cruz-Pineda, Leonardo and Soriano, Sirena and Treangen, Todd and Villapol, Sonia},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {bioRxiv},
  publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
  pages = {2024--05}
}

Probiotic treatment causes sex-specific neuroprotection after traumatic brain injury in mice

Morgan Holcomb, Austin Marshall, Hannah Flinn, and 5 more authors

Research Square, 2024

Bib

@article{holcomb2024probiotic,
  title = {Probiotic treatment causes sex-specific neuroprotection after traumatic brain injury in mice},
  author = {Holcomb, Morgan and Marshall, Austin and Flinn, Hannah and Lozano, Mariana and Soriano, Sirena and Gomez-Pinilla, Fernando and Treangen, Todd J and Villapol, Sonia},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Research Square},
  publisher = {American Journal Experts}
}