Dr.Jacques Izard

Research

The Izard’s laboratory leverages a multi-disciplinary approach to obtain a greater understanding of our microbiome function to empower everyone to nurture a supportive microbiome.
The research topics are centered on the human microbiome along the digestive tract. While we are not losing focus of health and disease, we take in account element of wellness as we face the day-to-day challenges.
The work in the laboratory includes:

1.  Understanding the effect of diet on the digestive microbiome in altered (ostomates) and unaltered digestive tract,
2. Studying the dissemination of members of the microbiome,
3. Improving methodologies related to microbiome studies.

Education

• MS/Ph.D. Cell Biology and Microbiology, Aix-Marseille University, France
• Post Doc, Microbiology, Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, Albany NY
• Faculty appointments, Forsyth Institute/Harvard, Boston MA

Teaching and/or Extension Activities

• Mentoring post-doctoral fellow and advising Undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. students.
• Course Director: Omnivore's digestive tract microbiome course (FDST 442/842 - Spring). https://bulletin.unl.edu/courses/FDST/442

Publications

Selected Publications (complete list of publications is available at NCBI via this link: http://go.unl.edu/0qwf ):

• Output consistency scale to standardize ostomate output description in clinical practice and studies. Lisa A. Whisenhunt, Linda H. Xu, Fan Yang, and Jacques Izard. Academic Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2021) vol. 3(1) AJGH.MS.ID.000554
• Comparisons of oral, intestinal, and pancreatic bacterial microbiomes in patients with pancreatic cancer and other gastrointestinal diseases. Mei Chung, Naisi Zhao, Richard Meier, Devin C. Koestler, Guojun Wu, Erika Del Castillo, Bruce J. Paster, Kevin Charpentier, Jacques Izard, Karl T. Kelsey, and Dominique S. Michaud. Journal of Oral Microbiology (2021), vol. 83 (13) 1887680
• Association Between Sulfur-Metabolizing Bacterial Communities in Stool and Risk of Distal Colorectal Cancer in Men. Long H. Nguyen, Wenjie Ma, Dong D. Wang , Yin Cao, Himel Mallick, Teklu Gerbaba, Jason Lloyd-Price, Galeb Abu-Ali, A. Brantley Hall, Daniel Sikavi, David A.Drew, Raaj S. Mehta, Cesar Arze, Amit D. Joshi, Yan Yan, Tobyn Branck, Casey DuLong, Kerry Ivey, Shuji Ogino, Eric B. Rimm EB, Mingyang Song, Wendy S. Garrett, Jacques Izard, Curtis Huttenhower, Andre T. Chan. Gastroenterology (2020) vol. 158 (5) pp. 1313-1325
• Role of dietary flavonoid compounds in driving patterns of microbial community assembly Kerry L Ivey, Andrew T Chan*, Jacques Izard*, Aedin Cassidy, Geraint B Rogers and Eric B Rimm. mBio (2019) vol. 10 (5) e01205-19
• Galeb S. Abu-Ali, Raaj S. Mehta, Jason Lloyd-Price, Kerry L. Ivey, Himel Malick, Tobyn Branck, David A. Drew, Casey DuLong, Eric Rimm, Jacques Izard, Andy T. Chan, Curtis Huttenhower. Microbial ecology and population structure in the human gut metatranscriptome. Nature Microbiology (2018) vol. 3(3), pp. 356-366.    
• Jacques Izard and Maria C. Rivera, Editors. 2015. Metagenomics for Microbiology. Elsevier/Academic Press. Print Book ISBN 9780124104723. ebook ISBN: 9780124105089.