
Otto X. Cordero (PI)
Microbial communities, eco-eco, microbes for sustainability..

Teja Jammalamadaka (PhD student)
Spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial communities on nutrient surfaces. Development of microfluidic tools to visualize community assembly at the microbe-scale and in real-time.

Stefany Moreno Gamez (Postdoc)
Mechanisms of polysaccharide utilization and niche partitioning in the human gut microbiome. Community assembly in the infant gut. Microbiome engineering.

Gabriel Vercelli (PhD student)
Cell surface functionalization techniques to augment microbial metabolism and design spatially structured microbial consortia

Samantha Pennino (Research Associate)
Microbiome-based solutions for sustainable food production in aquaculture.

Kunying Li (PhD student)
Quantitative tools for microbiome engineering. Imaging based solutions to measure host-microbiome interactions for zooplankton..

Chandana Gopalakrishnappa (Postdoc)
High-throughput phenomics. Resource utilization dynamics in heterotrophic bacteria. Microbiome engineering.

Rashi Jeeda (PhD student)
Designing and constructing spatially structured microbial consortia using new click-chemistry based methods.

Michaela Jones (Postdoc)
Synthetic biology and chemical engineering. Non-genetic metabolic augmentation. Polysaccharide utilization and waste valorization,.
ALUMNI
Rachel Gregor (Postdoctoral Fellow)- Associate Professor at University of Toronto
Annika Gomez (PhD student) – postdoc at Columbia University (Dyhrman lab)
Xiaoyu Shan (PhD student) – postdoc at Caltech (Newman lab)
Rachel Szabo (PhD student) – postdoc at ETH Zürich (Schubert & Ackermann lab)
Tim Enke (PhD student) – senior manager at Bain & Company
Lei Ma (PhD student) – bioinformatics scientist at Harvard FAS Informatics
Elise Ledieu-Dherbécourt (PhD student) – program manager & research scientist at Cultivarium
Jingqiu Liao (visiting PhD student) – assistant professor at Virginia Tech
Jakob Russel (visiting PhD student) – postdoc at University of Copenhagen (Sørensen lab)
Julien Barrere (visiting Master’s student) – Farmer Training Senior Program Administrator at New Entry
Desirée Schmitz (visiting Master’s student) – postdoc at Harvard (Helaine lab)
Leonora Bittleston (postdoc) – assistant professor at Boise State University
Matti Gralka (postdoc) – assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gabriel Leventhal (postdoc) – CSO / lead R&D of PharmaBiome
Ali Ebrahimi (postdoc) – research scientist at Takeda
Julia Schwartzman (postdoc) – assistant professor at University of Southern California
Shaul Pollak (postdoc) – group leader at University of Vienna
Andreas Sichert (postdoc) – postdoc at ETH Zürich (Sauer lab)
Akshit Goyal (visiting postdoc) – assistant professor at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru
Yuya Sato (visiting professor) – group leader at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Manoshi Datta (postdoc)