Our Team

Principal Investigator

Curtis Huttenhower

Professor, Biostatistics and
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Email: [email protected] | CV

Research Staff

Eric Franzosa

Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
CV

Kelsey Thompson

Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]

Tom Kuntz

Research Associate
Email: [email protected]

Lea Wang

Research Associate
Email: [email protected]

Sagun Maharjan

Software Developer
Email: [email protected]

George Weingart

Software Developer
Email: [email protected]

Philipp Muench

Research Scientist, joint with Alice McHardy
Email: [email protected]

Amrisha Bhosle

Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]

Kai Wang

Research Scientist, joint with Mingyang Song
Email: [email protected]

Microbiome Analysis and Collection Cores

Xochitl Morgan

Microbiome Analysis Core Director, Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]

Steven Medina

Microbiome Collection Core Director, Data Analyst
Email: [email protected]

Emily Green

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: [email protected]

Students

Jordan Jensen

PhD student, Biological Sciences in Public Heath
Email: [email protected]

Zhiji Hu

PhD student, Environmental Science Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Rutvik Patel

MS student, Biology
Email: [email protected]

Yujia Lu

PhD student, Epidemiology, joint with Mingyang Song
Email: [email protected]

Nicholas Dang

Undergraduate student
Email: [email protected]

Qianwen LI

MS student, Biostatistics
Email: [email protected]

Sunjeong Bae

PhD student, joint with Mingyang Song
Email: [email protected]

Yichen Han

MS student, joint with Philipp Muench
Email: [email protected]

Postdoctoral Fellows

Chahat Upreti

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: [email protected]

Yiqing Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Andrew T. Chan
Email: [email protected]

Dongyu Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: [email protected]

Yunhe Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Daniel Wang
Email: [email protected]

Jacob Nearing

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: [email protected]

Mengxi Du

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Mingyang Song
Email: [email protected]

Jiaxian Shen

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Long Nguyen
Email: [email protected]

Yuxi Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Daniel Wang
Email: [email protected]

Hanseul Kim

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Long Nguyen
Email: [email protected]

Etienne Nzabarushimana

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Long Nguyen
Email: [email protected]

Fenglei Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Daniel Wang
Email: [email protected]

Danyue Dong

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Daniel Wang
Email: [email protected]

Guilherme Fahur Bottino

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Email: [email protected]

Askarbek Orakov

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Seth Rakoff-Nahoum
Email: [email protected]

Ana Nogal

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Mingyang Song
Email: [email protected]

Zhongjie Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Daniel Wang
Email: [email protected]

Marina Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Jack Spengler
Email: [email protected]

Lab Affiliates

Wenjie Ma

Instructor of Medicine, MGH and HMS,
joint with Andrew T. Chan
Email: [email protected]

Tobyn Branck

Senior Scientist, Hill's
Email: [email protected]

First name	Last name	Email	Role	Start date	End date	Joint	Visitors
Will	Nickols	[email protected]	PhD student	6/7/2021	07/01/2025
Yancong	Zhang	[email protected]	Research associate	6/1/2018	12/31/2024
Tejus	Shinde	[email protected]	PhD student	7/29/2024	11/01/2024	Christine Moissl Eichinger	✅
Zhendong	Mai	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	8/1/2022	7/31/2024	Daniel Wang
Sena	Bae	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	2/1/2018	7/31/2024	Wendy Garrett
Yunfei	Lyu	[email protected]	MS student	11/1/2023	12/20/2024
Mifrah	Hayath	[email protected]	MS Student	7/1/2024	9/30/2024
Jessica	Finck	[email protected]	Rotating PhD student	7/1/2024	9/30/2024	Gerd Gleixner	✅
Lauren	McIver	[email protected]	Assiciate Director of Engineering, Senior Software Developer	2/1/2014	11/29/2024
Long	Nguyen	[email protected]	Principal investigator	7/1/2015	6/30/2020	Andrew T. Chan
Daniel	Wang	[email protected]	Research associate	9/1/2018	6/01/2024
Paul	Nelson	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	2/1/2021	6/01/2024	Empress Therapeutics
Katia	Chadaideh	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2022	6/01/2024	Daniel Wang
Xiao-Yin	To	[email protected]	PhD student	10/2/2023	6/01/2024	Alice McHardy and LMU Munich
Bailey	Bowcutt	[email protected]	Rotating PhD Student, Biological Sciences in Public Health	10/2/2023	6/01/2024		✅
Prioty	Sarwar	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	9/1/2022	5/31/2023	Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Kelly	Eckenrode	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/14/2021	3/2/2022
Eike	Wacker	[email protected]	PhD student	6/12/2023	6/23/2023	Kiel University & Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics (UKSH)
Theresa	Wilkat	[email protected]	PhD student	4/17/2023	6/27/2023
Connor	Geraghty	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	9/1/2020	5/5/2023	Andrew T. Chan
Andrew	Ghazi	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	10/5/2020	4/28/2023
Raaj	Mehta	[email protected]	Principal investigator	6/1/2020	4/28/2023	Andrew T. Chan
Meg	Short	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	12/7/2020	04/01/2023
Ronnie	Perdomo	[email protected]	Undergraduate student	6/6/2022	04/01/2023
Rahul	Unni	[email protected]	PhD student	11/7/2022	04/01/2023
Chaoran	Ma	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	3/7/2022	10/31/2022	Daniel Wang
Yan	Yan	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	2/1/2017	8/19/2022
Agathe	Grisard	[email protected]	MS student	3/7/2022	9/2/2022
Raven	Chen	[email protected]	PhD student	6/1/2022	10/14/2022
Alba	Troci	[email protected]	PhD student	8/1/2022	9/30/2022
Kristine	Davis	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/25/2021	8/2/2022	Daniel Wang
Hannah	VanEvery	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	11/1/2021	7/8/2022
Magnus	Stefansson	[email protected]	Research scientist	3/7/2022	8/15/2022
Sanjana	Kulkarni	[email protected]	Rotating PHD student, Virology	2/28/2022	7/2/2022
Xueying(Sonia)	Huang	[email protected]	Masters Student, Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics	9/6/2021	7/2/2022
Brad	James	[email protected]	Microbiome Collection Core Director	3/7/2022	4/20/2022
April	Pawluk	[email protected]	Strategic Program Manager	4/6/2021	2/28/2022
Arpan	Sarkar	[email protected]	Rotating PhD student, Biostatistics	8/30/2021	12/17/2021
Paulo	Manrique	[email protected]	Rotating PhD student, Biological Sciences in Public Heath	10/4/2021	12/17/2021
Aaron	Walsh	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	3/2/2020	11/19/2021
Brandon	Burdette	[email protected]	Microbiome Collection Core Manager	8/16/2021	11/15/2021
Cherry	Li	[email protected]	Microbiome Collection Core Manager	9/30/2019	9/30/2021
Jeremy	Wilkinson	[email protected]	Microbiome Analysis Core Director	3/1/2018	9/10/2021
Hera	Vlamakis	[email protected]	Group Leader, Broad Institute	7/1/2015	8/6/2021	Ramnik Xavier
Elizabeth	Perez	[email protected]	PhD student	1/12/2021	6/11/2021	Seth Rakoff-Nahoum	✅
Emma​	Accorsi	[email protected]	PhD Student, Population Health Sciences	11/1/2016	07/15/2021	Marc Lipsitch
Dawn	Chen	[email protected]	Rotator	10/13/2020	12/18/2020
Siyuan	Ma	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	12/1/2013	8/31/2020
Kathleen	Sucipto	[email protected]	MS student	5/18/2020	8/31/2020
Maddy	Kline	[email protected]	Rotator	7/1/2020	7/31/2020
Dmitry	Shungin	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	11/1/2016	6/30/2020	Ramnik Xavier
Luli	Zou	[email protected]	PhD student	1/27/2020	5/15/2020		✅
Erica	Normandin	[email protected]	PhD student	3/23/2020	5/15/2020	Wendy Garrett	✅
Melanie	Schirmer	[email protected]	Research associate	1/1/2015	2/4/2020	Ramnik Xavier
Sharifa	Sahai	[email protected]	PhD student	1/7/2020	1/15/2020		✅
Mondher	Khdhiri	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	8/26/2019	10/25/2019
Brantley	Hall	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2016	10/1/2019	Ramnik Xavier
Danylo	Lavrentovich	[email protected]	Rotator	7/22/2019	8/30/2019
Tommi	Vatanen	[email protected]	Senior Research fellow	11/1/2013	5/31/2019	Liggins Institute
Ana	Mailyan	[email protected]	Software developer	8/1/2018	5/31/2019
Jingjing	Tang	[email protected]	MS student	6/1/2018	4/30/2019
Himel	Mallick	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	10/5/2015	3/3/2019
Jason	Lloyd-Price	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	10/26/2015	2/21/2019
Kevin	Bonham	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2017	2/1/2019
Shimin	Bi	[email protected]	MS student	2/1/2018	12/31/2018
Casey	DuLong	[email protected]	Technician	10/1/2014	12/31/2018
Cesar	Arze	[email protected]	Software developer	1/1/2017	12/31/2018
Jim	Kaminski	[email protected]	MS student	2/1/2012	9/30/2018
Bahar	Sayoldin	[email protected]	Project manager	10/1/2015	9/30/2018
Danielle	Peterson		Undergraduate	6/1/2018	8/31/2018	Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Moran	Yassour	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	8/1/2012	8/31/2018	Ramnik Xavier
Yilin	Yin	[email protected]	Postbaccalaureate	5/1/2018	8/31/2018
Ali	Rahnavard	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	5/1/2014	8/31/2018
Lauren	Tso		Undergraduate	6/1/2018	8/31/2018	Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Jonathan	Thorsen	[email protected]	PhD student	6/1/2018	6/30/2018	Morten Rasmussen	✅
Stefan	Halvorsen	[email protected]	Rotator	4/1/2018	6/30/2018
Jane	Liang	[email protected]	Rotator	2/1/2018	5/31/2018
Galeb	Abu-Ali	[email protected]	Research scientist	3/1/2014	3/31/2018
John	Miller	[email protected]	Undergraduate	10/1/2017	12/31/2017
Madalyn	Mcfarland	[email protected]	Rotator	9/1/2017	12/31/2017
Tiffany	Hsu	[email protected]	PhD student	9/1/2013	10/31/2017
Koji	Yasuda	[email protected]	PhD student	1/1/2013	9/30/2017
Emma	Schwager	[email protected]	PhD student	5/1/2013	9/30/2017
Kayleigh	Rutherford	[email protected]	Postbaccalaureate	5/1/2017	8/31/2017
Michael	Barbini	[email protected]	High school	6/1/2017	8/31/2017
Chrystal	Chan	[email protected]	MS student	4/1/2016	5/31/2017
Boyu	Ren	[email protected]	PhD student	11/1/2012	5/31/2017
Allison	Hicks	[email protected]	Rotator	1/1/2017	3/31/2017
Tsubasa	Watabe	[email protected]	MS student	1/1/2017	1/31/2017
Simon	Chang	[email protected]	Software developer	8/1/2016	1/31/2017
Raivo	Kolde	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	7/1/2015	12/31/2016	Ramnik Xavier
Randall	Schwager	[email protected]	Software developer	9/16/2013	11/30/2016
Chengwei	Luo	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	10/1/2013	10/31/2016	Ramnik Xavier
Jacob	Luber	[email protected]	Rotator	7/1/2016	9/30/2016
Isabelle	O'Bryon	[email protected]	Undergraduate	6/1/2016	8/31/2016
Avi	Swartz	[email protected]	High school	6/1/2016	8/31/2016
Louise	Thingholm	[email protected]	PhD student	5/1/2016	7/31/2016	Andre Franke	✅
Alex	Kostic	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2013	7/31/2016	Ramnik Xavier
Alexandra	Sirota-Madi	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	2/1/2014	7/31/2016	Ramnik Xavier
Morten	Rasmussen	[email protected]	Principal investigator	11/1/2015	6/30/2016		✅
Lana	Awad	[email protected]	MS student	1/1/2016	5/31/2016
Andy	Shi	[email protected]	Undergraduate	2/1/2014	3/31/2016
Yong	Lee	[email protected]	Undergraduate	8/1/2015	12/31/2015
Ayshwarya	Subramanian	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2014	11/30/2015
Xochitl	Morgan	[email protected]	Research scientist	9/1/2011	10/31/2015
Minah	Iqbal	[email protected]	Project manager	8/1/2015	9/30/2015
Luc	Bijnens	[email protected]	Principal investigator	5/1/2015	8/31/2015		✅
Enrico	Micali	[email protected]	High school	6/1/2015	8/31/2015
Keith	Bayer	[email protected]	Software developer	9/1/2013	7/31/2015
Afrah	Shafquat	[email protected]	Project manager	7/1/2013	7/31/2015
Georgina	Hold	[email protected]	Principal investigator	10/1/2014	6/30/2015	Wendy Garrett	✅
Jingyuan	Fu	[email protected]	Principal investigator	2/1/2015	2/28/2015	Ramnik Xavier	✅
Muneeza	Patel	[email protected]	Undergraduate	1/1/2015	2/28/2015
Dirk	Gevers	[email protected]	Research scientist	4/1/2010	1/31/2015	Ramnik Xavier
Regina	Joice	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	7/1/2013	1/31/2015
Jessica	Lau	[email protected]	Rotator	9/1/2014	12/31/2014
Kevin	Oh	[email protected]	MS student	12/1/2012	11/30/2014
Soumya	Banerjee	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/1/2014	9/30/2014
Gerrod	Voigt	[email protected]	Undergraduate	5/1/2014	9/30/2014
Kathryn	Winglee	[email protected]	PhD student	6/1/2014	8/31/2014	Bill Bishai	✅
Joseph	Moon	[email protected]	Postbaccalaureate	3/1/2012	8/31/2014
Floris	Imhann	[email protected]	PhD student	7/7/2014	8/22/2014	Rinse Weersma	✅
Shirlee	Wohl	[email protected]	Rotator	4/1/2014	6/30/2014		✅
Puneet	Puri	[email protected]	Principal investigator	4/14/2014	4/18/2014
Tim	Tickle	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/1/2012	2/28/2014
Anna	Green	[email protected]	Rotator	12/1/2013	2/28/2014
Wesley	Wong	[email protected]	Rotator	10/1/2013	12/31/2013
Fah	Sathirapongsasuti	[email protected]	PhD student	2/1/2012	11/30/2013	John Quackenbush
Craig	Bielski	[email protected]	MS student	10/1/2012	11/30/2013
Sydney	Lavoie	[email protected]	Rotator	7/1/2013	9/30/2013
Taylor	Friedman	[email protected]	Undergraduate	3/1/2013	8/31/2013
Roman	Stolyarov	[email protected]	Undergraduate	7/1/2013	8/31/2013
Morgan	Paull	[email protected]	Undergraduate	6/1/2013	8/31/2013
Michelle	Archuleta	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	7/1/2012	7/31/2013	Ramnik Xavier
Daniela	Boernigen	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/1/2012	7/31/2013
Levi	Waldron	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/1/2012	7/31/2013
Alyx	Shubert	[email protected]	PhD student	6/1/2013	6/30/2013	Pat Schloss	✅
Yiren	Lu	[email protected]	Undergraduate	9/1/2012	6/30/2013
Kevin	Lee	[email protected]	PhD student	6/17/2013	6/21/2013	Xochitl Morgan	✅
Yvonne	Hua	[email protected]	Rotator	3/1/2013	5/31/2013
Vagheesh	Narasimhan	[email protected]	MS student	1/1/2012	5/31/2013
Felix	Wong	[email protected]	Undergraduate	11/1/2012	5/31/2013
Brian	Palmer	[email protected]	Software developer	9/1/2012	5/31/2013
Mi Young	Lim	[email protected]	PhD student	1/1/2013	4/30/2013	Gwangpyo Ko	✅
Hyun Sun	Yun	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	1/1/2013	4/30/2013	Gwangpyo Ko	✅
Joshua	Reyes	[email protected]	Rotator	1/1/2012	4/30/2013
Jean	Huang	[email protected]	Principal investigator	4/15/2013	4/19/2013		✅
David	Gootenberg	[email protected]	Rotator	1/1/2013	2/20/2013
Kasia	Baranowski	[email protected]	Rotator	11/1/2012	1/31/2013
Yael	Haberman	[email protected]	Clinical fellow	12/3/2012	12/7/2012	Ted Denson	✅
Nicola	Segata	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/1/2010	11/30/2012
Ben	Ganzfried	[email protected]	Postbaccalaureate	10/15/2010	9/30/2012
Jovian	Yu	[email protected]	Postbaccalaureate	2/1/2012	8/31/2012
Bing	Ma	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	6/4/2012	6/8/2012	Jacques Ravel	✅
Pinaki	Sarder	[email protected]	Postdoctoral fellow	4/1/2010	3/31/2011
Larisa	Miropolsky	[email protected]	Software developer	10/1/2010	2/28/2011
Willythssa	Pierre-Louis	[email protected]	Undergraduate	6/1/2010	8/31/2010
Jacob	Pritt	[email protected]	Undergraduate	2/1/2010	5/31/2010
Yoolee	Shin	[email protected]	MS student	1/1/2010	5/31/2010
Amy	Tai	[email protected]	Undergraduate	12/1/2009	3/31/2010