Meet Our Team
Lawrence David
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Center for Genomics & Computational Biology
Faculty & Staff
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Anna Bauer
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
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Michelle Kirtley
SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST
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Sharon Jiang
LAB MANAGER/ANALYST
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Stephen Embree
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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Nolan Ives
RESEARCH TECHNICIAN
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Ashish Subramanian
BIOSTATISTICIAN
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Nicole Duncan
COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
Postdocs & Fellows
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Aurian P. Garcia Gonzalez
Studying intestinal starvation in mice
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Kylie Reed
The microbiome in eating disorders
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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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Ben Neubert
Healthcare innovation and global diet
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Caroline Rivera
Infant dietary patterns and health
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Jun Zeng
Diet-microbiome interactions in cancer
Undergraduate Students
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Amy Huang
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Pranav Mukund
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Jack Rinadli
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Adam Yook
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 / Operations & Outreach Manager, OPEN Carolina
Rachael Bloom / Health Sciences Data Steward, UNC-Chapel Hill
Zachary Holmes / Associate Director of Product Development, BIOMILQ
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 / Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University
Past High School Interns
Mateo Albolote
Ethan Kirtley