Dr. Amanda Carroll-Portillo is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. She received her Ph.D. from UT Health Science Center in San Antonio in 2004. Her research focuses on the contribution of bacteriophages to the gastrointestinal microenvironment. She is interested in examining the interactions of bacteriophages with not only their bacterial hosts but with their metazoan host cells as well. She is focused on bringing a better understanding of the contributions that phages (commensal and introduced) may have in the context of gastrointestinal dysbiosis.