Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Stanford University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Interests: Emergent properties of complex biological networks and strategies for control
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
Hanhyeok Im
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. Seoul National University
Ph.D Seoul National University
Interests: Deciphering interactions between gut microbes using synthetic biology
Aaron Yip
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.E. Dalhousie University
MASc Dalhousie University
Ph.D. University of Waterloo
Interests: Horizontal gene transfer and microbiome engineering
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
Alejandro Castellanos
Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Universidad de los Andes
M.S.. Universidad de los Andes
Sarvesh Menon
Associate in Research
B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Conrad Moss
Associate in Research
B.S. University of Chicago​
Interests: Prediction and design of synthetic microbial communities
Brennan Keogh
Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Rice University
Interests: High-throughput synthetic biology and automation, data-driven assay design, modeling to guide engineering of microbial communities
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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
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
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Pak Lun Kevin Cheung
Graduate student, Electrical & Computer Engineering
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Computational modeling of microbiomes
ALUMNI
Postdocs
Yu-Yu Cheng
Postdoc at UPenn
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Jordy Sulaiman​​
Research Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Eloi Martinez-Rabert
Research Associate at Aix Marseille University​
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Yili Qian
Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb
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Freeman Lan
Assistant Prof. of BioE at U of Toronto
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Jun Feng
Scientist at DMC Biotechnologies
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Ryan Clark
Senior Scientist at AbbVie
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Joshua Hamilton
Data Scientist at Federation Bio
Xinyun Cao
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern​
Graduate students
Jaron Thompson
Computational scientist at Ark Biotech
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Yiyi Liu
Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb​
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Madeline Hayes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley
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Yifei Ren
Graduate student in Beebe lab
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Bryce Connors
Postdoc at UChicago
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Tyler Ross
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Susan Hromada
Senior Scientist at AbbVie
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Sonali Gupta
Researcher at Wavelet Neuro
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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