Josh Kellogg

Bio

I am an assistant professor of metabolomics at Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. from NCSU’s Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences Department. Our work focuses on the development of novel approaches to combat infectious diseases that impact agricultural, animal, and human health. We pursue ethnobotanical collaborations to discover new plant chemistry, and study botanical and environmental microbiomes and fungi for antimicrobial metabolites. Our lab uses a concerted approach, combining field screening, analytical metabolomics and bioinformatics with advanced analytical techniques, multi-platform chromatographic separations, isolation of lead compounds, and detailed structural and biological analysis to characterize active constituents as well as elucidate the mechanistic pathways of action. We also work to develop new bioanalytical and computational tools to expand the analytical capabilities of metabolomic analyses in chemistry, infectious disease biology, and ecology.