Natasha is a Ph.D. student in the Harvard Immunology Program. Her research interests are host-microbiome interactions and cellular metabolism.
Sena Bae
Sena is interested in discovering bioactive microbially-associated metabolites in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She is taking a joint computational and experimental approach to uncover novel bioactive microbial metabolites for therapeutic purpose in IBD.
Valentina Brunner
Valentina is a final year PhD candidate from the Technical University in Munich and is visiting the Garrett lab for a research exchange. She is particularly interested in the intricate interplay among tumor genetics, the microbiome, and host immunity within colorectal cancer. Within her research, she aims to decipher subtype-specific bacterial risk profiles and to delineate host-microbiota interactions that are relevant for tumor initiation and progression.
Sway Chen
Sway is a postdoc in the Garrett Lab studying the inflammatory role of T cells in metabolic associated fatty liver disease. She hopes to elucidate the role of T cells in mediating host-microbiome interactions along the gut-liver axis.
Slater Clay
Slater is a mucosal immunologist researching how diet, the microbiota, and immune metabolism regulate inflammation and anti-tumor immunity.
Diogo da Fonseca Pereira
Diogo is an immunologist trained in hematopoiesis, stem cell transplantation and lymphocyte development. He is studying how immune cells respond to environmental cues such as diet and the microbiota in the context of inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer.
Geniver (Jennifer) El Tekle
Jen is a cancer biologist by training studying how specific oncomicrobes shape the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer with the aim to identify novel therapeutic opportunities and improve precision medicine.
Wendy Garrett
Duhyun Ko
During Duhyun’s PhD studies in South Korea, she studied the role of bacterial signal transduction in enhancing their virulence and antibiotic resistance. She is now interested in how microbiota affect human diseases.
Meghan MacDonald
Meghan is responsible for the maintenance and genotyping of animals used in the lab to investigate the role of the gut microbiota in inflammatory diseases and cancer.
Monia Michaud
Monia is responsible for managing the Garrett Lab. She helps support various lab projects on gut inflammation, colon cancer and microbiome with her molecular and cellular biology expertise and varied lab skills, such as establishing an organoid bank, troubleshooting new techniques, tissue staining and microscopy imaging.
Geicho (Daniel) Nakatsu
Daniel is interested in the role of bacteria in cancer biology. He is taking molecular approaches to study specific characteristics of bacteria relevant to cancer pathogenesis.
Past Members
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