Ezgi Özcan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, LSU AgCenter who specializes in gut microbiome and nutritional microbiology. Her lab MinD-Gut studies the interactions between diet and gut microbes in neurological health and disease. They explore mechanisms on microbiota-gut-brain axis and develop novel microbiota targeted therapeutic strategies to impact health and disease.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles. 2021-2025
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019-2020
• PhD in Food Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2019
• MSc Biotechnology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey 2014
• BSc Food Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 2011

1. Özcan E, Yu KB, Dinh L, Lum GR, Lau K, Hsu J, Arino M, Paramo J, Lopez-Romero A, Hsiao EY (2025) Dietary fiber content in clinical ketogenic diets modifies the gut microbiome and seizure resistance in mice. Nature Communications 16(1), 987. PMID: 39856104 PMCID: PMC11759687
2. Özcan E, Lum GR, Hsiao EY (2022) Interactions between the gut microbiome and ketogenic diet in refractory epilepsy. International Reviews of Neurobiology. 167:217-249. PMID: 36427956
3. Özcan E, Rozycki MR, and Sela DA (2021) Cranberry proanthocyanidins and dietary oligosaccharides synergistically modulate Lactobacillus plantarum physiology. Microorganisms. 9(3), 656. PMID: 33810188 PMCID: PMC8004764
4. Özcan E and Sela DA (2018) Inefficient metabolism of the human milk oligosaccharides lacto-N-tetraose and lacto-N-neotetraose shifts Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis physiology. Frontiers in Nutrition. 5:46 PMID: 29900174 PMCID: PMC5989456
   
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