MEET THE TEAM

Photo credit: Maria Nemchuk, Broad Institute

Deborah T. Hung

Core Member, Director of the Center for Integrated Solutions for Infectious Diseases, & Co-Director of the Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Professor in the Departments of Genetics & Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Administrative Team

Rebecca Huynh

Senior Administrative Assistant

Marissa Jenko

Operations Lead

Paul Tyman

Senior Administrative Assistant

Sharon Wong

Associate Director

Scientific Team

Thuy Aziz

Sr. Research Associate

Lia Barrow

Research Associate

Erick Vasquez Cano

Graduate Student

Pooja Chaudhary

Sr. Research Associate

Anne ClatworthySr. Research Scientist

Anne Clatworthy

Sr. Research Scientist

Geetika Dhanda

Postdoctoral Scholar

James GomezSr. Research Scientist

James Gomez

Sr. Research Scientist

Drew Hearst

Undergraduate Student

Diana Hunt

Sr. Research Scientist

Samantha Miranda

Research Scientist

Lauren Phillips

Graduate Student

Josh Price

Graduate Student

Keith Romano

Postdoctoral Scholar

Zahra Sadeq

Research Associate

Jaryd Sullivan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Neena Tarafdar

Undergraduate Student

Rebecca Ulrich

Postdoctoral Scholar

Julia Vidlak

Graduate Student

Alan Wang

Research Associate

Thulasi Warrier

Research Scientist

Christiaan Wijers

Postdoctoral Scholar

 

Summer Students

  • Jayden Huang - 2026

  • Alexander Jackson - 2025, 2024

  • Caleb Miller - 2025

  • Skyler Simmons - 2025

  • Paz Meyers - 2019

  • Harishitaa Prithivirah - 2018

  • Hannah Laibinis - 2018

  • Madeline Priebe - 2018

  • Elizabeth Erler - 2017

  • Elijah Hong - 2017

  • Oliver Priebe - 2017

 

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

 

Scientists

  • Emily Geddes (Research Scientist)

  • Tomohiko Kawate (Chemist)

  • Marek Orzechowsi (Sr. Computational Biologist)

  • Jeff Gaulin (Sr. Research Chemist)

  • Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay (Computational Biologist)

  • Katie (Kyungae) Lee (Sr. Research Chemist)

Post-doctorates:

  • Shuting Zhang (2018-2026)

  • Giulio Alighieri (2023-2025)

  • Margarita Parada-Kusz (2017-2024)

  • Zohar Bloom-Ackermann (2015-2024)

  • Susan Stanley (2021-2023)

  • Peijun Ma (2015-2022)

  • Christoph Ernst (2013-2022)

  • Haley Amemiya (2021-2022)

  • Caitlin Lee Cohen (2020-2021)

  • Nicole Chumbler (2016-2021)

  • Eachan Johnson (2014-2020)

  • Bwarenaba Kautu (2020-2020)

  • Alex Sturm (2014-2020)

  • Eachan Johnson (2014-2020)

  • Christina Penaranda (2012-2020)

  • Xuezhi Zhang (2016-2020)

  • Roby Bhattacharyya (2012-2019)

  • Brad Poulsen (2012-2019)

  • Lidan Wu (2016-2017)

  • Roi Avraham (2011-2016)

  • Ella Hinson (2009-2010)

  • Amy Barczak (2007-2012)

  • Sarah Grant (2007-2012)

  • Erik Hett (2007-2012)

  • Benjamin Kaufmann (2007-2011)

  • Mark Leibman (2007-2008)

  • Sarah Stanley (2006-2011)

Graduate Students:

  • Emily Goering (2019-2025)

  • Donavan Neo (2019-2023)

  • Gowtham Thakku (2017-2022)

  • Viktoria Betin (2014-2019)

  • Samantha Wellington (2013-2017)

  • Nathan Haseley (2012-2015)

  • David Miranda (Medical Student)

  • Carl Wivagg (2009-2012)

  • Diane Xiao (Medical Student; 2008-2009)

  • Nikhilesh Chand (2008-2012)

  • Louise Slater (2007-2012)

Research Technicians:

  • Jack Shigeta (2023-2026)

  • Vincenzo di Natale (2023-2026)

  • Matthew Solomon (2023-2025)

  • Astrid Petropoulos (2023-2024)

  • Rebecca Barrick (2023-2025)

  • Hsinyen Huang (2023)

  • Ashley Eng (2023-2024)

  • Sina Rouhani (2022-2024)

  • Soomin Jin (2022-2024)

  • Shawn Yu (2022-2024)

  • Nathaniel Garry (2021-2023)

  • Stephanie Blackwood (2021-2023)

  • Alice Li (2021-2022)

  • Emily Gath (2020-2023)

  • Kyra Raines (2020-2022)

  • Jackson Lirette (2020-2023)

  • Kristina Ferarra (2020-2023)

  • Victoria Tran (2019-2021)

  • Allison Lemmer (2019-2021)

  • Lorrie He (2018-2021)

  • Catherine Choi (2017-2021)

  • Phuong Nguyen (2018-2020)

  • Annalise Getz (2019-2020)

  • Sophie Son (2017-2019)

  • Bella Gomez (2017-2019)

  • Emma Office (2017-2019)

  • Senya Combs (2016-2018)

  • Penny Sun (2016-2019)

  • Anna Zagieboylo (2016-2019)

  • Jamin Liu (2015-2017)

  • Elisabeth Meyer (2015-2017)

  • Nikolai Renedo (2015-2017)

  • Ved Tanavde (2015-2017)

  • Tiantian White (2014-2017)

  • Amy Fan (2015-2016)

  • Robert Rudy (2013-2014)

  • Jonathan Edelstein (2013-2015)

  • Douglas Brown (2013)

  • Melanie Silvis

  • Peter Kim

  • Samantha Lou

  • Milesh Patel

  • Imran Ghare (2012-2014)

  • Katherine Gordon (2010-2012)

  • Nicholas Dufour (2009-2010)

  • Edward Kazyanskaya (2009-2011)

  • Jordan Stewart (2007-2010)

  • John Aquadro (2006-2009)

  • Jenny Lee (2006-2012)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Sophie Chen (2024-2025)

  • Ethan Hsiao (2023-2024)

  • Abdullah Bannan (2022-2023)

  • Ria Kolli (2021-2023)

  • Chris Kwon (2021-2023)

  • Izzy Goodchild-Michelman (2020)

  • Sofia Kennedy (2016-2019)

  • Jessica Wu (2016-2019)

  • Kaelyn Cummins (2016-2017)

  • Julian Braxton (2015-2018)

  • Alexandra Panov

  • Sarah Osmulski

  • Christina Lalani

  • Emma Frank

  • Nataliya Gorbachuk (2011)

  • Danielle Reny (2011)

  • Daniel Oh (2010-2011)

  • Ignatius Chen (2009-2010)

  • Lulu Tsao

  • Anthony Muiru

  • Michael Silvestri (2008)

  • Allison Brandt