Welcome Ayushi!

May 23, 2022

Ayushi Sharma joins the lab for a research project.

Welcome Kaylene!

May 2, 2022

Kaylene G. Morrison joined the lab for a research project.

Welcome Julia!

April 6, 2022

Julia Urban joins the lab for a rotation.

Welcome Peiwen!

April 4, 2022

Peiwen Cai joins the lab for a rotation.

Congratulations Jingqiu!

March 14, 2022

We are incredibly proud of Dr. Jingqiu Liao for accepting a faculty position at Virginia Tech, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering! Exciting hiring opportunities at https://leaph-lab.github.io/

Welcome Gordon!

March 1, 2022

Gordon Qian, a visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Hong Kong, joins the lab.

Welcome Jain!

January 12, 2022

Jain Ryu joins the lab for a research project.

Welcome Jennifer!

January 10, 2022

Jennifer Ho joined the lab for a rotation.

New paper out!

January 5, 2022

Accurate and robust inference of microbial growth dynamics from metagenomic sequencing reveals personalized growth rates

Welcome Hannah!

November 8, 2021

Hannah E. Amin joined the lab for her MS thesis project.

Welcome Yusheng!

September 17, 2021

Yusheng Jiang joins the lab for a research project.

Welcome Nicolas!

September 16, 2021

Nicolas Beltran joined the lab for a research project.

Welcome Noga!

September 8, 2021

Noga Aharony joined the lab for a rotation.

Welcome Shaurya!

September 1, 2021

Shaurya joined the lab for a master's research project.

New Commentary out in mSystems!

August 17, 2021

Embracing metagenomic complexity with a genome-free approach
(Not often do we get to write about what we're doing, instead of what we did)

Lab awarded first R01!

August 3, 2021

The lab was awarded an R01 titled "A large scale investigation of the vaginal metagenome and metabolome and their role in spontaneous preterm birth".

Congratulations Martin!

June 29, 2021

Chen (Martin) Liu wins outstanding MA thesis award from the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

New preprint out!

June 13, 2021

Preterm birth is associated with xenobiotics and predicted by the vaginal metabolome

Welcome Yoli!

May 31, 2021

Yoli Meydan joined the lab as a research assistant.

New preprint out!

February 2, 2021

Accurate and robust inference of microbial growth dynamics from metagenomic sequencing

New paper out!

November 11, 2020

A reference map of potential determinants for the human serum metabolome

Welcome Aviya!

October 26, 2020

Aviya Litman joined the lab for a research project as a Data Science Institute (DSI) Scholar.

Welcome Linrui!

September 21, 2020

Linrui Tang joined the lab for her MA project.

Welcome George!

September 14, 2020

George Austin joined the lab for a research project (with Itsik Pe'er [CS], Liat Shenhav [Rockefeller])

Welcome Jingqiu!

September 7, 2020

Dr. Jingqiu Liao joined the lab as a postdoctoral research scientist.

Lab awarded the Vagelos Precision Medicine Pilot Grant

July 17, 2020

We are honored to be awarded the Vagelos Precision Medicine Pilot Grant, along with our collaborators Profs. Uhlemann, Gallos and Vink. This grant will support our work on mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions in spontaneous preterm birth.

Welcome Chen!

June 5, 2020

Chen (Martin) Liu joined the lab for his MA project.

Welcome Tom!

June 1, 2020

Tom Cohen joined the lab for a summer project (with Prof. Itsik Pe'er, CS)

Welcome Yiwei!

May 26, 2020

Yiwei Sun joined the lab for a rotation.

Welcome Federico!

February 10, 2020

Dr. Federico Baldini joined the lab as a postdoctoral research scientist.

Welcome Harry!

January 27, 2020

Harry Lee joined the lab for a research project.

Welcome Xinyi!

January 6, 2020

Xinyi Lin joined the lab.

Welcome Lily!

December 2, 2019

Lily He joined the lab for a research project as a Data Science Institute (DSI) Scholar.

Welcome Thomas!

September 20, 2019

Thomas Tran joined the lab for a research project.

Tal appointed CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.

September 5, 2019

Tal received the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholarship in the Humans & the Microbiome program.

Welcome Aya!

August 15, 2019

Dr. Aya Brown Kav joined the lab as a postdoctoral research scientist.

Welcome Will!

June 10, 2019

William Kindschuh joined the lab for a rotation.

Welcome Izaak!

April 1, 2019

Izaak Coleman joined the lab for a rotation.

New paper out! Structural variation in the gut microbiome.

March 27, 2019

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Welcome Dagmawi!

February 1, 2019

Dagmawi Sraj joined the lab for a research project.