About

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Ramnik Xavier's lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & Massachusetts General Hospital. Before my postdoc, I completed my Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, where I pursued my doctoral research in Dr. Ran Blekhman's lab .

My research focuses on developing computational approaches to understand the role of host-microbiome interactions in human health and disease. As part of my doctoral research, I developed and applied a machine learning-based framework to perform a comprehensive characterization of interactions between the gut microbiome and host gene expression in patients with colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome. My Ph.D. work was partially funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship . During my postdoctoral training, I am developing novel multi-omic approaches using microbial genomics and metabolomics data to characterize molecular mechanisms of host-microbiota interactions that influence human health.