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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Nolan Ives
RESEARCH TECHNICIAN
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Sharon Jiang
LAB MANAGER/ANALYST
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Michelle Kirtley
SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST
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Ashish Subramanian
BIOSTATISTICIAN
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Olivia Vaz
PROJECT COORDINATOR
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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Caroline Rivera
Infant dietary patterns and health
Undergraduate Students
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Amy Huang
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Rachel Qi
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 / Ph.D. Student, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
Olivia Osborne / Associate Scientist, MilliporeSigma
Past Postdocs
Max Villa / Product Manager, Baebies
Mengyi Dong / Assistant Professor of Seafood Safety & Quality Engineering, Virginia Tech
Former Undergraduate Students
Olivia Lin
Eric Mastrolonardo
Miranda Metz
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
Past High School Interns
Mateo Albolote
Ethan Kirtley