Lab Members

Research Interests: 

• Intestinal and systemic immune responses
• Host-microbe interactions
• Early life conditioning of the immune system
• Data science tools to integrate microbiome data with patient metadata to predict treatment efficacy

Location: E3-141

Research Interests: 

• Influence of gut microbiota on local and systemic immune cell populations
• Gut regulatory T cells, tolerance to luminal antigens and gut microbiota
• Impact of gut immune cell populations on systemic vaccine responses
• Infectious diseases affecting underrepresented or marginalized populations 

Research Interests: 

• Infectious diseases epidemiology
• Global health
• Health systems and policy
• Health access for marginalized communities

Research interests:

• Role of gut microbiome in population vaccine response heterogeneity
• Immune correlates of protection in vaccine efficacy trials
• T cell clonal diversity and cross-reactivity
• Innate predictors of vaccine immunogenicity
• Immunologically-informed sieve analysis
• Determinants of immunodominance
• Host-genetics and vaccine efficacy

Research interests: 

• Functional metagenomic analysis of the human microbiome
• Impact of the microbiome on chemotherapeutic efficacy and vaccine response
• Role of strain-level microbial diversity influencing common human diseases

Research Interests: 

• Microbial ecology and community structure and function of gut ecosystems
• The relationship between gut microbes and their host
• The influence of commensal gut bacteria on host health and vaccine response

Research Interests: 

• Prediction of immune response to vaccines / infections based on composition of the microbiota
• How local host-microbe interactions (e.g. in the gut) affect the behavior of the immune system at large
• The influence of the microbiota on immune tolerance / activation

Location: E3-154D

Research Interests: 

• The effect of microbiome on vaccine efficacy and metabolism of treatment
• How host-genetics and environmental factors modulates the microbiome and immune system
• Characterizing the crosstalk between immune system and gut microbes

Research Interests:

• Vaccine development, especially in the context of using vaccines to combat the rising tide of antibiotic resistance.
• Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
• Immune evasion strategies pathogens use to subvert host defenses

Research interests:

• Microbial community ecology
  Understanding how microorganisms are affected by and in term shape their environment, such as the human host or marine environments
• Examining how microorganisms shape the human immune systems’ response to vaccines
• Using computational tools, statistics, and modeling to illuminate microbiome-environment interactions.

Research Interests:

• Role of the microbiome in determining vaccine efficacy
• Host-microbe interactions at the mucosal surface and their influence on systemic immunity
• Effects of microbe-microbe interactions and metabolism on host physiology
• Understanding innate and innate-like subset interactions with commensal microbial communities