Microorganisms inhabit nearly every environment on Earth — they are critical components of many ecosystems, but there is so much we don’t yet know about how they interact. The human microbiome has been implicated in several chronic diseases and disorders, some of which have a disproportionate impact across populations. The microbiome is tightly linked to the immune system, yet much remains unknown about what governs microbial-immune interactions in the body, how they change over time, and how they adapt to changing conditions and/or accumulated exposures.

My interests lie at the intersection of microbiology, immunology, and bioinformatics, leveraging multi-omic strategies to interrogate host-microbe and microbe-microbe crosstalk in interkingdom relationships. I am also interested in ecosocial approaches to decipher the mechanisms driving health disparities. My work spans not only microbiology and translational medicine, but also scholarship that centers equity as a critical pillar of a thriving scientific training environment.

Microbiome science and data science are rapidly evolving disciplines with the potential to illuminate interactions between microorganisms and their hosts in a variety of contexts. My lab works at the intersection of microbiology, immunology, and bioinformatics, leveraging multi-omic strategies to interrogate host-microbe and microbe-microbe crosstalk in interkingdom relationships in the airway.