Over 600 scientists from around the world participated in the annual HCMPH Microbiome symposium earlier this week. Thank you to the speakers and panelists for their excellent presentations and to everyone who presented posters as well! Here's a write-up on it - hsph.harvard.edu/news/role-of... 🎉

Qianwen Li, a Masters student in the lab recently defended her thesis and did an amazing job! Congrats Qianwen!

Marina Chen, a PhD student from the lab defended her thesis on Monday. The title of her thesis was "Ecological activities in childcare microbiome". Many many congrats Dr. Chen!!!! 🎉

Had fun playing Taiko last week! Thanks to Curtis for bringing it to lab meeting 😃

A small reminder about or workshop this June. Still lots of time to sign up and we look forward to meeting you!

Exciting workshop alert! Join us in Boston, June 2-6, for a week-long deep dive into microbial community multi-omics and stats using the bioBakery! Hosted by Huttenhower Lab & HCMPH, this hands-on course covers shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metabolomics—no prior experience needed 1/2

Introducing our new postdoc Chahat!

Chahat completed his PhD in Microbiology from UT Dallas. He is passionate about exploring the gut microbiome and its link with disease. In the lab, Chahat will be working toward deciphering microbial markers of early-onset colorectal cancer. @chahat.bsky.social