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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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
Graduate students
Drew Alessi
Master’s student
Medical Sciences Program
Boston University
Project: Computationally investigate the effect of diet on the human metabolism
Email: dalessi@bu.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
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
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
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
Project: Analysis of long-read metagenomic data from celiac disease patients
Email: dle13@mgb.org
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
Jack Tian
Undergraduate student in in Computer Science and Psychology
Harvard College
Project: Developing foundation models for life science applications
Email: jtian7@mgh.harvard.edu