Associate Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry, Bacteriology, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Stanford University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Interests: Emergent properties of complex biological networks and strategies for control
Yu-Yu Cheng
Assistant Scientist
B.S. National Taiwan University
Ph.D. Rice University
Interests: Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities
Jordy Sulaiman
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.E. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Ph.D. HKUST
Interests: Ecology and evolution of human gut pathogens
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
B.S. Purdue University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Synthetic biology approaches to controlling microbiomes
Eloi Martinez-Rabert
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S., M.S. Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ph.D University of Glasgow
Interests: Microbial community engineering and understanding control of community assembly
Claire Palmer
Research Associate (Postdoc)
USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship
B.A. Wesleyan University
M.A. Wesleyan University
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Engineering microbial communities to control plant phenotypes
Job Grant
Lab Manager
B.S. University of South Carolina
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Interests: Lab manager
Tyson Wheelwright
Graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Brigham Young University
Interests: Prediction and design of the human gut microbiome
Julie DuClos
Graduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
NSF GRFP
B.S. Colorado School of Mines
NIH Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship
Interests: Interactions between host and gut microbiota
Bryce Connors
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Rhode Island
Interests: Controllability, stability and functional landscapes of microbial consortia
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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
Madeline Hayes
Graduate student, Microbiology
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Design of microbial communities for bioenergy applications, resistance to invasion by pathogens
Yiyi Liu
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Minnesota
Interests: In situ engineering of microbiomes
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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
Masters student, Biomedical Engineering
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Single-cell behaviors using tools from machine learning
Wenxuan Dong
Graduate student, Biophysics
B.S., M.S. China Agricultural University
Interests: Synthetic microbial communities and bile acid metabolism in the human gut microbiome
ALUMNI
Postdocs
Assistant Prof. at U of Toronto (Dec 2023)
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Jun Feng
Scientist at DMC Biotechnologies
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Ryan Clark
Senior Scientist at Nimble Therapeutics
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Joshua Hamilton
Data Scientist at Federation Bio
Xinyun Cao
Postdoc, Landick Lab (UW-Madison)
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Graduate students
Susan Hromada
Scientist II at Nimble Therapeutics
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Sonali Gupta
Jin Wen Tan
Research Associate at Metagenomi
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Undergraduates
Zhengyi Chen
Ph.D. student in Quantitative & Chemical Biology at Vanderbilt
Sarah Ertmer
Process Engineer at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
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Harman Dewantoro
Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota
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Technicians
Ryan H Hsu
M.D./Ph.D. student at University of California-San Diego
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