TEAM
Ali R. Zomorrodi
Principal Investigator
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Computational and Systems Biology Lead, Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Mass General Hospital for Children
Postdoctoral Associate, Segrè Lab, Boston University, 2019
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2012
Email: azomorrodi@mgh.harvard.edu
Twitter: @arzomorrodi
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Graduate students
Zhiqi (Ellie) Zhang
Master’s student
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Project: Predicting clinical events from longitudinal macrobiomic data using ML.
Email: zhiqizhang@hsph.harvard.edu
Zhiqiu (Jacob) Yu
Master’s student
Harvard SEAS
Project: Predicting the timing of clinical events from longitudinal macrobiomic data using ML.
Email: zhiqiu_yu@g.harvard.edu
Jiayi Sun
Master’s student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Project: Prediction of host’s health and disease status from macrobiomic data using ML.
Email: jsun43@mgh.harvard.edu
Nicholas A Medearis
Master’s student
Computer Science
MIT
BS, Computer Science, MIT
Project: Developing foundation models for life science applications
Email: medearis@mit.edu
Mengdi (Kim) Chai
Master’s student
Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics
Harvard School of Public Health
BS, Quantitative Biology, USC
Project: Using LLMs to support clinical decisions making.
Email: mchai@hsph.harvard.edu
Xinyi (Riddle) Chen
Master’s student
Biostatiscs
Boston University
MS, Finance, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
BA, Public Administration, Sichuan University, China
Project: Computational modeling of human microbiomes.
Email: xchen251@bu.edu
Medical students
Chloe McCreery
Medical student
The University of Hawaii School of Medicine
BS, Biological Engineering, MIT
Project: Construction of metabolic models for macrophages and intestinal epithelial cells in celiac disease
Email: chloem@mit.edu
David Le
Medical student
Albany Medical College
MGH Digestive Disease Summer Research Fellow
BS, Biology, Boston College
Project: Analysis of long-read metagenomic data from celiac disease patients
Email: dle13@mgb.org
Drew Alessi
Medica student
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
MS, Medical Sciences Program, Boston University
BS, Computer and Information Sciences, College of Charleston
Project: Computationally investigate the effect of diet on the human metabolism
Email: dalessi@bu.edu
Undergraduate students
Isabella (Izzy) Goodchild-Michelman
BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard FAS
Project: Computational modeling of the impact of probiotics on the gut microbiota of preterm infants
Research staff
Rachel Brosnan
Research technician (jointly with Prof. Alessio Fasano)
BS. Biology, Emmanuel College
Project: Investigating microbiome-immune-epithelium interactions using 3D gut organoid models.
Email: rabrosnan@mgb.org
Visting scientists
Stefano Leo, PhD
Visting faculty (jointly with Prof. Fasano)
Researcher in Microbiome Core at the European Biomedical Research Institute of Salerno (EBRIS), Italy
PhD, Life Sciences, spec. Genomics and Digital Health, University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals (Switzerland)
Project: Analysis of fecal metagenomic and epigenetic data in celiac disease