Arifuzzaman Lab
Hongyan Gao
Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine
Research Focus:
Microbiota and Immunity
Leyla Selman
Research Technician Lab Manager
Research Focus:
Immunology
Blander Lab
Kristel Yee Mon
Postdoctoral Associate
Trinidad and Tobago
Chongbo Yang
Postdoctoral Associate
Guangzhou, China
Research interests: significance of intestinal epithelial cell death in tissue homeostasis
Atimukta Jha
Postdoctoral Associate
India
Yuhua Shi
Postdoctoral Associate
China
Dylan Roycroft
Research Technician
Ireland
Yuviana Jatinder Singh
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interest: Neoantigen Immunogenicity and LNP-RNA Vaccines
Collins Lab
Seong-Ji Han
Research Associate
Berlin, Germany
Research interests: Nutritional regulation of Immunity
Mingeum Jeong
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interest:
Dietary regulation of cancer immunotherapy
Riley Schneider
Research Interest:
Impact of diet and environmental factors on anti-tumor immunity.
Michelle Wallerius
Research Interest:
Dietary regulation of anti-tumor immunity in early-onset-colorectal cancer.
Bella Bursulaya
Research Interest:
Dietary regulation of pregnancy and offspring immune development.
Eduardo Gushiken-Ibanez
Research Interest:
Dietary regulation of commensalism in the skin.
Charles Carr
Research Interest:
Dietary regulation of anti-tumor outcomes and side effects of immune checkpoint blockade.
Goto Lab
Saori Goto, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Guo Lab
Wenbing Jin
Postdoctoral Associate
Chongqing, China
Research interests: interactions between host and gut microbiota, new genetic tools, small molecule metabolism and IBD
Tingting Li
Postdoctoral Associate
Sichuan, China
Research interests: gut microbiota, host metabolism, and engineering gut microbiota to sense and treat diseases
Huiqing Shi
Research Technician
Beijing, China
Shanshan Qiao
Postdoctoral Associate
Zhengzhou, China
Research interests: microbiota-host Interactions, metabolic functionality, and microbiota-targeted small molecules
Iliev Lab
Takato Kusakabe, PhD
Instructor of Immunology in Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Research interests: Mucosal immunology, Relationship between fungi and pulmonary diseases such as COVID-19 and asthma
Woan-Yu Lin, PhD
Graduate Student
Hualien, Taiwan
Mucosal immunology, IBD, Gut-brain axis
Alekso Milo Miller
Graduate Student
University of Pennsylvania
Research Focus: Neuroscience, Investigating how fungi and bacteria impact the nervous system.
Xiangyu Pan, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine
Sichuan University, China
Research focus: Computational analysis of the role of microbiota in cancer and immunological diseases.
Cristina Bono Tapp, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Valencia, Spain
Research focus: Mucosal immunology, neuroimmunology, hematopoiesis.
Olga Morzhanaeva, MS
Lab Manager
Pace University (M.S.)
Katherine Donald, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus: Host-microbe interactions, the mother-infant immune interface, IBD etiology.
Mengdan Chen, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus: Antifungal humoral immunity; CRISPR based gene editing in fungi and immune cells.
Kai Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus: Fungi in intestinal homeostasis and neuroimmunity
Emilia Vignogna
Clinical Research Assistant
Research Focus: Clinical studies investigating the gut mycobiome in IBD, Gut-Brain axis.
Azmi Azis
Masters Student
Research Focus: Host-mycobiota interactions, immune interactions in the tumor microenvironment
Patricia Albuquerque, PhD
Visiting Scientist
Research Focus: Mycology, Fungal Genetics, Microbial Communication
Elvira Roman, PhD
Visiting Scientist
Research Focus: Fungal Genetics, Gut Mycobiome
Aurelia Li
Clinical Research Assistant
Research Focus: IBD
Boyan Tsankov, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus: Host-microbiome interactions, how intestinal microbes mediate immunity at neurological and mucosal barriers.
Kyosuke Yakabe, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus: Mucosal Immunology, Investigating the interaction of gut microbes (fungi and bacteria) and immune and intestinal epithelial cells
Longman Lab
Grace Maldarelli
Infectious Disease Fellow
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Research interests: intestinal microbiota and host-pathogen-microbiome interactions
Manabu Nagayama
Postdoctoral Associate
Miyazaki, Japan
Research interests: Interaction between gut microflora and the intestinal immune system
Silvia Pires
Postdoctoral Associate
Guimarães, Portugal
Research interests: Mucosal immunology, microbiome and immunometabolism
Wei Yang
Postdoctoral Associate
Liaoning, China
Research Interests: Mucosal Immunology
Emre Cardakli,
Graduate Student
Hollidaysburg, PA
Research Interest: Autoimmunity & Host-Microbiota interactions
Caroline Ericsson
Clinical Research Assistant
Brookline, Massachusetts
Chloe Scott
Lab Manager-Longman Lab
Research Technician
Vancouver, Canada
Platt Lab
Katelyn Rose Alley, PhD.
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D. Univesity of Oregon
Saurish Kapoor
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dawon "Eddie" Kim
Research Technician
BA University of Southern California (USC)
Zachary Renzin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sonnenberg Lab
Anees Ahmed
Postdoctoral Associate
Darbhanga, Bihar, India
Research Interests: Mucosal immunology, gut-brain axis and vaccinology
Brooke Fiedler
Graduate Student
Hartsdale, NY
Research Interests: Mucosal immunology and the gut microbiota
Joseph Gladstone
Graduate Student
Boston, Massachusetts
Research Interests: host-microbe interactions, mucosal immunology, and tumor immunology
Ching-Lan Lu
Visiting GI Fellow
Taipei, Taiwan
Research Interest: Mucosal Immunology
Sam Jensen
Postdoctoral Associate
Long Island, NY
Research interests: Host microbe interaction at mucosal surface
Lan Kang
Postdoctoral Associate
Hebei, China
Research Interests: Mucosal Immunology
Sophia Qu
Graduate Student
Great Neck, New York
Research interests: gut microbiota, mucosal immunology, and tumor immunology
Jordan Zhou
Postdoctoral Associate
Detroit, Michigan
Research Interests: molecular immunology, immune tolerance, and the interactions between the immune system & the microbiome.
Veronika Horn
Postdoctoral Associate
Berlin, Germany
Research interests: Innate immune mechanisms regulating intestinal inflammation and immunity
Myeong Joon Kim
Postdoctoral Associate
Seoul, South Korea
Research Interest:
Mucosal Immunology and neuro-immune interactions
Adriana Brcic-Susak
Research Specialist
(Lab Manager)
Fairview, NJ
Lexi Tempera
Research Technician I
NIH-PREP Scholar
Chicago, IL
Mucosal immunology and neuro-immune interactions
Dario Garone
Research Technician II
Long Island, NY
Seong-Eun (Grace) Kim
Post Doctoral Associate
Atlanta, GA
Research Interest:
Diet–microbe–immunity interactions
Isabelle Bursulaya
AKA- "Bella"
Graduate Student
San Diego, CA
Research Focus: Gut Mucosal Immunology
JRI Administrative Staff
Maria Violenus
Sr Administrative Specialist
Brooklyn, NY
Nusrat Zahan
Sr Administrative Specialist
Shawn Davidson
Administrative Specialist
JRI Scientific Staff
Caitlin Mason
Clinical Research Coordinator
Stroudsburg, PA
Jorge Gandara
Microbiome Research Service Manager
Floral Park, NY
Alex Grier
Staff Bioinformatician
Rochester, NY
Thomas Miller
Flow Cytometry Coordinator
Louisville, Kentucky