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
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
Hanyheok Im
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. Seoul National University
Ph.D Seoul National University
Interests: Deciphering interactions between gut microbes using synthetic biology
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 Sanchez
Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering
M.S. Universidad de los Andes
B.S. Universidad de los Andes
Brennan Keogh
Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Rice University
Sarvesh Menon
Associate in Research
M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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
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
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
Madeline Hayes
Graduate student, Microbiology
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Design of microbial communities for bioenergy applications, resistance to invasion by pathogens
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
Pak Lun Kevin Cheung
Graduate student, Electrical & Computer Engineering
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Computational modeling of microbiomes
ALUMNI
Postdocs
Eloi Martinez-Rabert
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Yili Qian
Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb
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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 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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