Mustafa Ozcam, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• T32 NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, 2024-2025
• Pilot Research Award, Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine, 2023-2024
• T32 NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, 2023-2024
• Robert H. and Carol L. Deibel Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Probiotic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison., 2018-2019

Education & Training

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• Ph.D. Microbiology University of Wisconsin Madison 2018
• M.S. Microbiology Celal Bayar University 2012
• B.S. Food Science Ondokuz Mayis University 2010

Interests

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• Early-life diet
• Microbe-host interactions
• Biotherapeutics
• Human microbiome
• Asthma
• Inflammation

Publications (15)

Top publication keywords:
Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeFecesSevere Acute MalnutritionInflammatory Bowel DiseasesRNA, Ribosomal, 16SMicrobial InteractionsRespiratory SoundsLysogenyBacteriophagesProphagesGastric BypassAbdominal FatPolyketide SynthasesChickensAllergens

• Enhanced Gut Microbiome Capacity for Amino Acid Metabolism is associated with Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Failure.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Özçam M, Lin DL, Gupta CL, Li A, Wheatley LM, Baloh CH, Sanda S, Jones SM, Lynch SV
• 12,13-diHOME Promotes Inflammatory Macrophages and Epigenetically Modifies Their Capacity to Respond to Microbes and Allergens.
  Journal of immunology research 2024 Lin DL, Magnaye KM, Porsche CE, Levan SR, Rackaityte E, Özçam M, Lynch SV
• The gut-airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases.
  Nature reviews. Microbiology 2024 Özçam M, Lynch SV
• Fecal microbiota is associated with extraintestinal manifestations in inflammatory bowel disease.
  Annals of medicine 2024 Hertz S, Anderson JM, Nielsen HL, Schachtschneider C, McCauley KE, Özçam M, Larsen L, Lynch SV, Nielsen H
• Early-life nasal microbiota dynamics relate to longitudinal respiratory phenotypes in urban children.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2024 McCauley KE, Durack J, Lynch KV, Fadrosh DW, Fujimura KE, Vundla F, Özçam M, LeBeau P, Caltroni A, Burns P, Tran HT, Bacharier LB, Kattan M, O'Connor GT, Wood RA, Togias A, Boushey HA, Jackson DJ, …

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• 3'UTR-Seq analysis of chicken abdominal adipose tissue reveals widespread intron retention in 3'UTR and provides insight into molecular basis of feed efficiency.
  PloS one 2022 Wang Z, Özçam M, Abasht B
• A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation.
  Cell host & microbe 2022 Özçam M, Oh JH, Tocmo R, Acharya D, Zhang S, Astmann TJ, Heggen M, Ruiz-Ramírez S, Li F, Cheng CC, Vivas E, Rey FE, Claesen J, Bugni TS, Walter J, van Pijkeren JP
• Prebiotic to Improve Calcium Absorption in Postmenopausal Women After Gastric Bypass: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2022 Wu KC, Cao S, Weaver CM, King NJ, Patel S, Kingman H, Sellmeyer DE, McCauley K, Li D, Lynch SV, Kim TY, Black DM, Shafer MM, Özçam M, Lin DL, Rogers SJ, Stewart L, Carter JT, Posselt AM, Schafer AL
• Draft Genome Sequences of 12 Lactobacillus reuteri Strains of Rodent Origin.
  Microbiology resource announcements 2020 Zhang S, Özçam M, van Pijkeren JP
• Prophages in Lactobacillus reuteri Are Associated with Fitness Trade-Offs but Can Increase Competitiveness in the Gut Ecosystem.
  Applied and environmental microbiology 2019 Oh JH, Lin XB, Zhang S, Tollenaar SL, Özçam M, Dunphy C, Walter J, van Pijkeren JP
• Gut Symbionts Lactobacillus reuteri R2lc and 2010 Encode a Polyketide Synthase Cluster That Activates the Mammalian Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor.
  Applied and environmental microbiology 2019 Özçam M, Tocmo R, Oh JH, Afrazi A, Mezrich JD, Roos S, Claesen J, van Pijkeren JP
• Draft Genome Sequence of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activator Strains Lactobacillus reuteri R2lc and 2010.
  Microbiology resource announcements 2019 Özçam M, van Pijkeren JP
• d-Alanyl-d-Alanine Ligase as a Broad-Host-Range Counterselection Marker in Vancomycin-Resistant Lactic Acid Bacteria.
  Journal of bacteriology 2018 Zhang S, Oh JH, Alexander LM, Özçam M, van Pijkeren JP
• Gut Microbiota in Children Hospitalized with Oedematous and Non-Oedematous Severe Acute Malnutrition in Uganda.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2016 Kristensen KH, Wiese M, Rytter MJ, Özçam M, Hansen LH, Namusoke H, Friis H, Nielsen DS
• Aflatoxin M1 in Tarhana chips.
  Food additives & contaminants. Part B, Surveillance 2014 Özçam M, Obuz E, Tosun H