Jessica L. Fessler

This study identifies fermentation-derived metabolites (FDMs) from fermented foods that modulate immune, microbial, and metabolic systems to reduce inflammation and metabolic disease severity.

The paper introduces CometChip, a platform for high-throughput parallel analysis of multiple DNA repair activities, demonstrating its effectiveness in assessing repair deficiencies in Base Excision Repair, Nucleotide Excision Repair, and Non-Homologous End Joining.

The paper identifies cancer-specific eQTLs by modeling genotype-tumor purity interactions in heterogeneous tumor gene expression data, showing most risk variants affect tumor microenvironment cells.