Christopher Smillie, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chris received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while working in the lab of Eric Alm. He went on to do his postdoctoral research with Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Adarsh Kumbhari, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate

Adarsh is developing mathematical models and computational tools to identify interactions between the microbiome, human tissues, and disease. Originally born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Adarsh has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sydney. Outside of research, his hobbies include TV (especially The Simpsons), hiking, and being a coffee snob.

Vy Tran, B.S.
Former Associate Computational Biologist
Graduate Student (Harvard BIG)

Vy received her B.S in Computer Science at Minerva Schools in 2021. During her undergraduate research, she used machine learning tools to solve a range of biomedical problems related to disease diagnosis and prognosis. In the Smillie lab, Vy is interested in using multi-modal measurements of human genetics, gene expression, and the human microbiome to gain deeper insights into host-microbe interactions.

Thomas Cheng, MEng
Graduate Student (Harvard-MIT HST)

Thomas is a student in the Harvard-MIT HST program. Prior to arriving in Boston, he was a student at Imperial College London.

Emanuel F. Burgos-Robles, B.S. (Ema)
Graduate Student (MIT CSB)

Originally from Puerto Rico, Emanuel received his B.S. in Molecular Biology with a certificate in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Now, he is a PhD student in the Computational Biology and Systems at MIT. In lab, he is interested in using evolutionary and single-cell approaches to understand how transcriptionally active bacterial strains of the gut microbiome can modulate disease.

In his free time he goes to comedy clubs, breweries, and spends night with his friends playing board games.

Ohad Lewin-Epstein
Rothschild and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

Ohad develops computational methods to study host-microbiome interactions.

His main research focuses on microbial evolution, and on revealing how the microbiome adapts to the IBD gut environment.

Ohad received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University, while working in Prof. Lilach Hadany's lab.

David Goh
Undergraduate Student

David is a student at Imperial College London. He is interested in studying the evolution of microbial proteins involved in inflammation and neuronal signaling.

Shivam Gandhi, B.S.
Associate Computational Biologist

Now PhD student at Harvard University