Gajender Aleti

Dr. Gajender Aleti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food and Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture, at Tennessee State University, with a research focus on diet-microbiome interactions. He received his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, in collaboration with the Austrian Institute of Technology, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute. Dr. Aleti’s research focuses on associations among diet, environmental exposures, and the gut microbiome. His work examines diet-microbiome interactions, including those involving environmental contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). He integrates population-scale microbiome sequencing with microbial culturing and in vitro functional assays to generate mechanistic insight beyond descriptive association studies. Dr. Aleti has extensive experience in metagenomics and metabolomics and is actively involved in mentoring trainees. 

Mentee: Khetzie M. González-Guerrero