Volunteer: Kenda Rigdon

With a Ph.D. In Microbiology (focus on HIV-1), and over twelve years of Collegiate-level instruction of the Allied Health Sciences, Kenda is now a Research Associate in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. She has a passion for science communication in the area of nutrition and how it impacts the gut microbiome and health. Follow her educational blog about gut health at www.rightinthegut.com,
Twitter: @KendaRigdon.
Featured Issue
FEMS Microbes is excited to present its latest thematic issue, focusing on bacterial-viral co-infections. Host and microbial factors are critically important for influencing the severity and outcome of infection. Interactions between microbes is an understudied yet important aspect to this process.