Taichi Suzuki is a joint assistant professor at the College of Health Solutions and Biodesign Center for Health Through Microbiomes. He investigates the ecology and evolution of host-microbial interactions and their implications for human health. The Suzuki lab combines population genetic studies and laboratory experiments to study host-microbial coevolution, ranging from genes to organismal biology to macro-evolutionary patterns.
Before joining ASU in 2023, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute where he identified gut microbes that codiversified with humans. Suzuki earned his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley studying the genetic and environmental determinants of the gut microbiota in wild mice and humans.