Rownock Afruza Postdoctoral Research Fellow National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Institutes of Health (NIH) I am working as a postdoctoral fellow at NIDDK, NIH, since 2021 under the supervision of Dr. Theo Heller. I received my Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, in December 2020. During my PhD, I have worked with the E4orf1 transgenic mouse model to explore the role of human adeno viral protein E4orf1 in non-alcoholic liver disease and high-fat-diet-induced chronic kidney disease and have been mentored by Dr. Vijay Hegde. I have started my research career by focusing on disease–gene association in hypertensive populations. I completed my M.S. and B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, I am investigating microbial genomics and proteomics of the gut–liver axis in different liver diseases. I am also interested in exosome signaling and bile acid metabolism in portal hypertension. I am a trainee member of the American Association for the study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)