Meet the Team
Lawrence David
Principal investigator & Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and the Center for Genomics & Computational Biology
Faculty & Staff
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Katherine Anderson
DATA SCIENTIST
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Kenia Barajas-Salazar
RESEARCH TECHNICIAN
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Anna Bauer
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
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Stephen Embree
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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Sharon Jiang
LAB MANAGER/ANALYST
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Michelle Kirtley
SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST
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Olivia Vaz
PROJECT COORDINATOR
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Nicole Duncan
COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
Postdocs & Fellows
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Sarah Brown
Molecular ecology and dietary patterns
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Kylie Reed Jeffrey
The microbiome in eating disorders
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Ben Neubert
Automated toilet monitoring
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Dorothy Superdock
Nutrition, genomics, and GI diseases
Graduate Students
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Jacob Hiatt
Dietary DNA and its role in nutrition
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Ama Kwabia
Urobiome and UTI pathophysiology
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Caroline Rivera
Infant dietary patterns and health
Undergraduate Students
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Ayan Atreya
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Amy Huang
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Rachel Qi
Community Wastewater
Team Lead
Grace Inman
CURRENT TEAM
Elisabeth Driscoll
Grace Inman (Team Lead)
Anahy Intriago
Charity Johnston
Min Tie
RESERVE TEAM
Past Lab Members
Former Staff Members
Eric Dallow / Senior Microbiologist, San Diego County Public Health Laboratory
Heather Durand / Materials Technology Laboratories Manager, College of Design at N.C. State University
Matthew Gedye / PhD Student, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
Nolan Ives / PhD Student, Barrangou Lab, N.C. State University
Olivia Osborne / Associate Scientist, MilliporeSigma
Ashish Subramanian / MD & PhD Student, Washington University in St. Louis
Past Postdocs
Aurian P. García González / Surgical Resident, Duke University Healthcare System
Max Villa / Product Manager, Baebies
Mengyi Dong / Assistant Professor of Seafood Safety & Quality Engineering, Virginia Tech
Past Graduate Students
Ammara Aqeel / Associate Clinical Trial Manager, Medpace
Rachael Bloom / Health Sciences Data Steward, UNC-Chapel Hill
Zachary Holmes / Principal Scientist, VitaKey Inc.
Jeffrey Letourneau / Computational Biologist, Novartis
Firas Midani / Assistant Professor of Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Brianna Petrone / Resident Physician at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine
Aspen Reese / Biodiversity Manager, University of Cambridge
Justin Silverman / Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University
Jun Zeng / Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert Jenq Lab, City of Hope
Former Undergraduate Students
Olivia Lin
Eric Mastrolonardo
Miranda Metz
Former Wastewater Team Members
Maka Ezimora
Thomas Jin
Cole Ragsdale
Kiko Wang
Past High School Interns
Mateo Albolote
Ethan Kirtley