Michael Conlon

Dr Michael Conlon is a senior research scientist with CSIRO Food and Nutrition. He has extensive experience in overseeing research on the impacts of diet on gut and general health, particularly related to dietary fibres (especially resistant starch), proteins and polyphenols, the gut microbiota and metabolomics, prebiotics and probiotics, gut barrier function, diet-induced DNA damage, and conditions such as colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and autism spectrum disorder.