Assistant Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry, Bacteriology, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Stanford University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Yu-Yu Cheng
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. National Taiwan University
Ph.D. Rice University
Interests: Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities
Jun Feng
Assistant Scientist (Postdoc)
B.S. Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ph.D Nankai University
Interests: Next-generation microbial therapeutics, design of microbial consortia for biomanufactering
Freeman Lan
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. University of Toronto
Ph.D University of California San Francisco
Interests: Top-down approaches for studying horizontal gene transfer in complex microbial communities
Erin Ostrem Loss
Research Associate (Postdoc)
Genome Sciences Postdoctoral Trainee
B.S. University of Iowa
Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Ecological stability in the gut microbiome
Yili Qian
Assistant Scientist (Postdoc)
B.S. Purdue University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Synthetic biology approaches to controlling microbiomes
Claire Palmer
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.A. Wesleyan University
M.A. Wesleyan University
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Engineering microbial communities to control plant phenotypes
Bryce Connors
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Rhode Island
Interests: Controllability, stability and functional landscapes of microbial consortia
Julie DuClos
Graduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
B.S. Colorado School of Mines
Interests: Interactions between host and gut microbiota
Madeline Hayes
Graduate student, Microbiology
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Design of microbial communities for bioenergy applications, resistance to invasion by pathogens
Susan Hromada
Graduate Student, Microbiology
B.S. Calvin College
NIH Biotechnology Training Program
Interests: Resilience of microbiomes to invasion by pathogens and antibiotics
Yiyi Liu
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Minnesota
Interests: In situ engineering of microbiomes
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Wenbo Lu
Graduate student, Biochemistry
B.S. University of Washington
Interests: Synthetic biology and computational modeling of metabolic pathways and microbial communities
Yifei Ren
Graduate student, Biophysics
B.S. Nanjing Agricultural University
Interests: High-throughput approaches for characterizing microbial interactions
Jaron Thompson
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Data driven models to guide microbial community engineering and experimental design
Tyler Ross
Research Intern
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Single-cell behaviors using tools from machine learning
ALUMNI
Postdocs
Ryan Clark
Senior Scientist at Nimble Therapeutics
Joshua Hamilton
Data Scientist at Federation Bio
Xinyun Cao
Postdoc, Landick Lab (UW-Madison)
Graduate students
Sonali Gupta
Jin Wen Tan
Research Associate at Metagenomi
Undergraduates
Zhengyi Chen
Ph.D. student in Quantitative & Chemical Biology at Vanderbilt
Sarah Ertmer
Process Engineer at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
Technicians
Ryan H Hsu
M.D./Ph.D. student at University of California-San Diego
