Dr. Roshonda Jones, PhD

Roshonda B. Jones, PhD is a computational microbiome researcher and bioinformatician whose work bridges early-life nutrition, gut development, and metabolic health. She earned her PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UNC Charlotte and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where her work focused on how diet shapes the developing microbiome in early life. She is now an Assistant Professor in Biology at North Carolina A&T State University. Her research continues to explore diet–microbe interactions and their impact on long-term health, with the goal of leveraging these insights to prevent, diagnose, and treat metabolic disorders.