Jordan Bisanz

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research Summary

The interface of microbiology and bioinformatics, with approaches including genomics and metabolomics to investigate the interplay of diet, drugs, and the gut microbiome.

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Most Recent Publications

Girma Mulisa, Roger Pero-Gascon, Valerie McCormack, Jordan E. Bisanz, Fazlur Rahman Talukdar, Tamrat Abebe, Marthe De Boevre, Sarah De Saeger, 2025, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Benjamin Anderson, Diana Sepulveda, Rahul Nachnani, Alonso Cortez-Resendiz, Aviauna Beckett, Matthew Coates, A Beckett, J Bisanz, Jordan Bisanz, W Raup-Konsavage, Joshua Kellogg, Wesley M. Raup-Konsavage, 2024, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics on p. 331-341

Yuan Tian, Bipin Rimal, Jordan E. Bisanz, Wei Gui, Trenton M. Wolfe, Imhoi Koo, Iain Alexander Murray, Shaneice K. Nettleford, Shigetoshi Yokoyama, Fangcong Dong, Sergei Koshkin, K. Sandeep Prabhu, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Seth T. Walk, Gary H. Perdew, Andrew D. Patterson, 2024, Environmental Health Perspectives

Than S. Kyaw, Chen Zhang, Moriah Sandy, Kai Trepka, Shenwei Zhang, Luis A. Ramirez Hernandez, Lorenzo Ramirez, Janice J.N. Goh, Kristie Yu, Vincent Dimassa, Elizabeth N. Bess, Jacob G. Brockert, Darren S. Dumlao, Jordan E. Bisanz, Peter J. Turnbaugh, 2024, iScience

Gut bacteria convert glucocorticoids into progestins in the presence of hydrogen gas

Megan D. McCurry, Gabriel D. D'Agostino, Jasmine T. Walsh, Jordan E. Bisanz, Ines Zalosnik, Xueyang Dong, David J. Morris, Joshua R. Korzenik, Andrea G. Edlow, Emily P. Balskus, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jun R. Huh, A. Sloan Devlin, 2024, Cell on p. 2952-2968.e13

Diana Sepulveda, Kent Vrana, Joshua Kellogg, Jordan Bisanz, Dhimant Desai, Nicholas M. Graziane, Wesley M. Raup-Konsavage, 2024, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics on p. 206-213

Bipin Rimal, Stephanie Collins, Megan Granda, Ceylan Tanes, Imhoi Koo, E Rocha, Sumeet Solanka, M Granda, Nushrat Hoque, Sumeet Solanki, Nushrat Hoque, Emily Gentry, Emily Gentry, Tingting Yan, Imhoi Koo, Kristopher Krausz, Erin Reilly, Fuhua Hao, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Devendra Paudel, Vishal Singh, Edson Rocha, James Coleman, Tingting Yan, Min Kim, Yatrik Shah, Frank Gonzalez, Kyle Bittinger, John Vanden Heuvel, Joseph Zackular, Kristopher Krausz, A Patterson, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, James Coleman, Yatrik Shah, Jordan Bisanz, Frank Gonzalez, John P. Vanden Heuvel, John Heuvel, Gary Wu, Babette Zemel, Pieter Dorrestein, Emily E. Weinert, Andrew Patterson, 2024, Nature on p. 859-863

Vaibhav Upadhyay, Rahul K. Suryawanshi, Preston Tasoff, Maria McCavitt-Malvido, Renuka G. Kumar, Victoria Wong Murray, Cecilia Noecker, Jordan E. Bisanz, Yulin Hswen, Connie W.Y. Ha, Bharath Sreekumar, Irene P. Chen, Susan V. Lynch, Melanie Ott, Sulggi Lee, Peter J. Turnbaugh, 2023, mBio on p. e0088923

Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management

Rachel N. Carmody, Jordan E. Bisanz, 2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology on p. 535-550

Cecilia Noecker, Juan Sanchez, Jordan E. Bisanz, Veronica Escalante, Margaret Alexander, Kai Trepka, Almut Heinken, Yuanyuan Liu, Dylan Dodd, Ines Thiele, Brian C. DeFelice, Peter J. Turnbaugh, 2023, PLoS Biology

Most-Cited Papers

E Bolyen, J Rideout, M Dillon, N Bokulich, C Abnet, G Al-Ghalith, H Alexander, E Alm, M Arumugam, F Asnicar, Y Bai, Jordan E. Bisanz, K Bittinger, A Brejnrod, C Brislawn, C Brown, B Callahan, A Caraballo-Rodríguez, J Chase, E Cope, R Da Silva, C Diener, P Dorrestein, G Douglas, D Durall, C Duvallet, C Edwardson, M Ernst, M Estaki, J Fouquier, J Gauglitz, S Gibbons, D Gibson, A Gonzalez, K Gorlick, J Guo, B Hillmann, S Holmes, H Holste, C Huttenhower, G Huttley, S Janssen, A Jarmusch, L Jiang, B Kaehler, K Kang, C Keefe, P Keim, S Kelley, D Knights, I Koester, T Kosciolek, J Kreps, Langille MGI, Morgan G.I. Langille, J Lee, R Ley, Y Liu, E Loftfield, C Lozupone, M Maher, C Marotz, B Martin, D McDonald, L McIver, A Melnik, J Metcalf, S Morgan, J Morton, A Naimey, J Navas-Molina, L Nothias, S Orchanian, T Pearson, S Peoples, D Petras, M Preuss, E Pruesse, L Rasmussen, A Rivers, M Robeson, 2nd, Michael S. Robeson, P Rosenthal, N Segata, M Shaffer, A Shiffer, R Sinha, S Song, J Spear, A Swafford, L Thompson, P Torres, P Trinh, A Tripathi, P Turnbaugh, S Ul-Hasan, van der Hooft JJJ, Justin J.J. van der Hooft, F Vargas, Y Vázquez-Baeza, E Vogtmann, M von Hippel, W Walters, Y Wan, M Wang, J Warren, K Weber, Williamson CHD, Charles H.D. Williamson, A Willis, Z Xu, J Zaneveld, Y Zhang, Q Zhu, R Knight, J Caporaso, 2019, Nature Biotechnology on p. 852-857

Vayu Maini Rekdal, V Maini Rekdal, E Bess, Jordan Bisanz, P Turnbaugh, E Balskus, 2019, Science

Evan Bolyen, Jai Ram Rideout, Matthew R. Dillon, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Christian C. Abnet, Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith, Harriet Alexander, Eric J. Alm, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Francesco Asnicar, Yang Bai, Jordan E. Bisanz, Kyle Bittinger, Asker Brejnrod, Colin J. Brislawn, C. Titus Brown, Benjamin J. Callahan, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez, John Chase, Emily K. Cope, Ricardo Da Silva, Christian Diener, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Gavin M. Douglas, Daniel M. Durall, Claire Duvallet, Christian F. Edwardson, Madeleine Ernst, Mehrbod Estaki, Jennifer Fouquier, Julia M. Gauglitz, Sean M. Gibbons, Deanna L. Gibson, Antonio Gonzalez, Kestrel Gorlick, Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Hillmann, Susan Holmes, Hannes Holste, Curtis Huttenhower, Gavin A. Huttley, Stefan Janssen, Alan K. Jarmusch, Lingjing Jiang, Benjamin D. Kaehler, Kyo Bin Kang, Christopher R. Keefe, Paul Keim, Scott T. Kelley, Dan Knights, Irina Koester, Tomasz Kosciolek, Jorden Kreps, Morgan G.I. Langille, Joslynn Lee, Ruth Ley, Yong Xin Liu, Erikka Loftfield, Catherine Lozupone, Massoud Maher, Clarisse Marotz, Bryan D. Martin, Daniel McDonald, Lauren J. McIver, Alexey V. Melnik, Jessica L. Metcalf, Sydney C. Morgan, Jamie T. Morton, Ahmad Turan Naimey, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Louis Felix Nothias, Stephanie B. Orchanian, Talima Pearson, Samuel L. Peoples, Daniel Petras, Mary Lai Preuss, Elmar Pruesse, Lasse Buur Rasmussen, Adam Rivers, Michael S. Robeson, Patrick Rosenthal, Nicola Segata, Michael Shaffer, Arron Shiffer, Rashmi Sinha, Se Jin Song, John R. Spear, Austin D. Swafford, Luke R. Thompson, Pedro J. Torres, Pauline Trinh, Anupriya Tripathi, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Sabah Ul-Hasan, Justin J.J. van der Hooft, Fernando Vargas, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Emily Vogtmann, Max von Hippel, William Walters, Yunhu Wan, Mingxun Wang, Jonathan Warren, Kyle C. Weber, Charles H.D. Williamson, Amy D. Willis, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Jesse R. Zaneveld, Yilong Zhang, Qiyun Zhu, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso, 2019, Nature Biotechnology on p. 1091

Bile acids and the gut microbiota: metabolic interactions and impacts on disease

S Collins, Jonathan Stine, Jordan E. Bisanz, C. Denise Okafor, D Okafor, Andrew Patterson, 2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology on p. 236-247

Donggi Paik, Lina Yao, Yancong Zhang, Sena Bae, Gabriel D. D’Agostino, Minghao Zhang, Eunha Kim, Eric A. Franzosa, Julian Avila-Pacheco, Jordan E. Bisanz, Christopher K. Rakowski, Hera Vlamakis, Ramnik J. Xavier, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Randy S. Longman, Michael R. Krout, Clary B. Clish, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Curtis Huttenhower, Jun R. Huh, A. Sloan Devlin, 2022, Nature on p. 907-912

Jordan Bisanz, V Upadhyay, J Turnbaugh, K Ly, P Turnbaugh, 2019, Cell Host and Microbe on p. 265-272.e4

C Mirzayi, A Renson, Cesare Furlanello, F Zohra, Susanna Assunta Sansone, S Elsafoury, Fatima Zohra, L Geistlinger, Shaimaa Elsafoury, L Kasselman, Ludwig Geistlinger, K Eckenrode, J van de Wijgert, Lora J. Kasselman, A Loughman, Kelly Eckenrode, F Marques, Janneke van de Wijgert, D MacIntyre, Amy Loughman, M Arumugam, Francine Z. Marques, David A. MacIntyre, R Azhar, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, F Beghini, K Bergstrom, Rimsha Azhar, A Bhatt, Francesco Beghini, Kirk Bergstrom, J Braun, Ami Bhatt, H Bravo, Jordan E. Bisanz, G Buck, Jonathan Braun, Hector Corrada Bravo, F Bushman, Gregory A. Buck, D Casero, Frederic Bushman, G Clarke, M Collado, David Casero, Gerard Clarke, P Cotter, Maria Carmen Collado, J Cryan, R Demmer, Paul D. Cotter, S Devkota, John F. Cryan, Ryan T. Demmer, E Elinav, Suzanne Devkota, J Escobar, J Fettweis, Eran Elinav, Juan S. Escobar, R Finn, A Fodor, Jennifer Fettweis, Robert D. Finn, S Forslund, A Franke, Anthony A. Fodor, Sofia Forslund, C Furlanello, Andre Franke, J Gilbert, Cesare Furlanello, E Grice, B Haibe-Kains, Jack Gilbert, Elizabeth Grice, S Handley, P Herd, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, S Holmes, Scott Handley, Pamela Herd, J Jacobs, Susan Holmes, L Karstens, R Knight, Jonathan P. Jacobs, Lisa Karstens, D Knights, Rob Knight, O Koren, D Kwon, Dan Knights, M Langille, Omry Koren, B Lindsay, Douglas S. Kwon, D McGovern, A McHardy, S McWeeney, N Mueller, L Nezi, M Olm, N Palm, E Pasolli, J Raes, M Redinbo, M Rühlemann, R Balfour Sartor, P Schloss, L Schriml, E Segal, M Shardell, T Sharpton, E Smirnova, H Sokol, J Sonnenburg, S Srinivasan, L Thingholm, P Turnbaugh, V Upadhyay, R Walls, P Wilmes, T Yamada, G Zeller, M Zhang, N Zhao, L Zhao, W Bao, A Culhane, V Devanarayan, J Dopazo, X Fan, M Fischer, W Jones, R Kusko, C Mason, T Mercer, S Sansone, A Scherer, L Shi, S Thakkar, W Tong, R Wolfinger, C Hunter, N Segata, C Huttenhower, J Dowd, H Jones, L Waldron, 2021, Nature Medicine on p. 1885-1892

A Pröbstel, X Zhou, R Baumann, S Wischnewski, M Kutza, O Rojas, K Sellrie, A Bischof, K Kim, A Ramesh, R Dandekar, A Greenfield, R Schubert, Jordan Bisanz, S Vistnes, K Khaleghi, J Landefeld, G Kirkish, F Liesche-Starnecker, V Ramaglia, S Singh, E Tran, P Barba, K Zorn, J Oechtering, K Forsberg, L Shiow, R Henry, J Graves, Cree BAC, Bruce A.C. Cree, S Hauser, J Kuhle, J Gelfand, P Andersen, J Schlegel, P Turnbaugh, P Seeberger, J Gommerman, M Wilson, L Schirmer, S Baranzini, 2020, Science immunology

R von Schwartzenberg, Jordan Bisanz, S Lyalina, P Spanogiannopoulos, Q Ang, J Cai, S Dickmann, M Friedrich, S Liu, S Collins, D Ingebrigtsen, S Miller, J Turnbaugh, Andrew D. Patterson, K Pollard, K Mai, J Spranger, P Turnbaugh, 2021, Nature on p. 272-277

R Harvie, A Chisholm, Jordan E. Bisanz, J Burton, P Herbison, K Schultz, M Schultz, 2017, World Journal of Gastroenterology on p. 4632-4643

News Articles Featuring Jordan Bisanz

The stories that defined 2024 for the One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State

The One Health Microbiome Center has grown, and 2024’s most popular articles below highlight the determination and innovative research by Center members in the gut microbiome, nutritional sciences, food science and agriculture, in addition to headlines featuring partnerships and internships paving the way for future success.

One Health Microbiome Center launches new video series

The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC) announced the launch of a new video series highlighting the center's state-of-the-art resources, research capabilities and collaborative efforts in microbiome sciences.

Early life exposure to common chemical permanently disrupts gut microbiome

Early life exposure to "forever chemicals" in the environment permanently disrupts the gut microbiome in mice, contributing to the development of metabolic disease in later life, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The results suggest that human exposure to these chemicals during early childhood may be contributing to the recent epidemic of metabolic disorders, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes among adults.

Bisanz named Huck Early Career Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions

Jordan Bisanz, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State, has been awarded a Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions.

New role for bacterial enzyme in gut metabolism revealed

Bile acids long have been known to play a role in human metabolism. Synthesized from cholesterol in the liver, bile acids are involved in digestive processes, particularly in absorbing fat.

$1.9M NIH grant to support research on impacts of the microbiome on human health

To help understand how complex communities of microbes impact human health, the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Science has awarded a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award to Jordan Bisanz

Free film and panel discussion reveals 'invisible' crisis of the microbial world

At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 2, Penn State’s Microbiome Center will present "The Invisible Extinction" — a movie that spotlights the trailblazing work and charismatic personalities of renowned scientists who aim to save the vanishing microbes that are essential for our survival.