Dr. Krzysztof Czaja

Krzysztof Czaja is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. He received his D.V.M. in 1993 from the Veterinary Medicine College, Academy of Agriculture and Technology, Olsztyn, Poland, and his Ph.D. in neuroanatomy from the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland, in 1997. From 1997 to 2007, he did postdoctoral work at the University of Warmia and Mazury (Olsztyn, Poland), the Institute for Plastination (Heidelberg, Germany), and the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Physiology Research Unit (Athens, GA, USA). In 2007, he was appointed to the faculty as an assistant professor at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. In 2015, he joined the Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging Department at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and has been invited to give numerous presentations and symposia. His lab is investigating the role of the microbiome in gut-brain neural connections.