Meet Our Team

Lawrence David

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Center for Genomics & Computational Biology

Faculty & Staff

  • Sharon Jiang

    Sharon Jiang

    LAB MANAGER/ANALYST

  • Stephen Embree

    Stephen Embree

    EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER

  • Michelle Kirtley

    Michelle Kirtley

    SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

  • Nolan Ives

    RESEARCH TECHNICIAN

  • Ashish Subramanian

    BIOSTATISTICIAN

  • Nicole Duncan

    COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT

Postdocs & Fellows

  • Mengyi Dong

    Mengyi Dong

    Food safety, food security, and community

  • Aurian P. Garcia Gonzalez

    Aurian P. Garcia Gonzalez

    Studying intestinal starvation in mice

  • Kylie Reed

    Kylie Reed

    The microbiome in eating disorders

  • Dorothy Superdock

    Dorothy Superdock

    Nutrition, genomics, and GI diseases

Graduate Students

  • Ammara Aqeel

    Ammara Aqeel

    Social and environmental modulators of diet

  • Jacob Hiatt

    Jacob Hiatt

    Dietary DNA and its role in nutrition

  • Teresa McDonald

    Teresa McDonald

  • Ben Neubert

    Ben Neubert

    Healthcare innovation and global diet

  • Caroline Rivera

    Caroline Rivera

    Infant dietary patterns and health

  • Jun Zeng

    Jun Zeng

    Diet-microbiome interactions in cancer

Undergraduate Students

Past Lab Members

Former Staff Members

Eric Dallow / Senior Microbiologist, San Diego County Public Health Laboratory

Heather Durand / Materials Technology Laboratories Manager, College of Design at N.C. State University

Matthew Gedye / Ph.D. Student, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University

Olivia Osborne / Associate Scientist, MilliporeSigma

Past Postdocs

Max Villa / Product Manager, Baebies

Past Graduate Students

Rachael Bloom / Health Sciences Data Steward, UNC-Chapel Hill

Zachary Holmes / Associate Director of Product Development, BIOMILQ

Jeffrey Letourneau / Computational Biologist, Novartis

Firas Midani / Assistant Professor of Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine

Brianna Petrone / Resident Physician at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine

Aspen Reese / Biodiversity Manager, University of Cambridge

Justin Silverman / Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University