Carmody Lab

Amar completed master's degrees in psychology at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College). He also worked for several years as a research assistant in the Department of Experimental...

Laura is a postdoctoral fellow in Rachel Carmody’s Nutritional and Microbial Ecology Lab. She studies how the gut microbiome affects host energy balance, how these host-microbial interactions shape energy allocation strategy across developmental and...

I seek to understand how the human body acquires and utilizes energy, and how past changes in energy budget have shaped human evolution. Within the past decade, it has become clear that energy metabolism depends on complex interactions between diet...