Microbiome Archives - Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Thomas Walz, PhD

The Walz laboratory uses molecular electron microscopy to study macromolecular complexes and membrane proteins in a lipid environment. Their research focuses on membrane proteins and biological membrane-related processes, such as vesicular transport.

Jhimmy Talbot, PhD

The Talbot lab investigates how food and microbes are sensed by neurons in the gut and their influence on immunity, nutrition, and metabolism.

Sidhartha Sinha, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Sidhartha Sinha, MD

The Sinha lab aims to develop novel solutions to alleviate intestinal inflammatory conditions. Their research is focused on understanding microenvironment changes to identify better therapeutic targets for people with GI immune-mediated disorders.

Eran Segal, Faculty, Weizmann Institute of Science

Eran Segal, PhD

Dr. Segal is part of a multi-disciplinary lab of computational biologists and scientists focusing on microbiome, nutrition, genetics, and gene regulation in health and disease.

Manuela Raffatellu, MD

The Raffatellu lab’s research focus is to understand the complex interplays between gut pathogens, mucosal immunity and the gut microbiota, with the long-term goal of discovering novel and effective therapeutic targets for controlling infection.

Sarkis Mazmanian, Professor, California Institute of Technology

Sarkis Mazmanian, PhD

The Mazmanian lab aims to discover how the gut microbiome influences development and function of the immune and nervous systems, to understand mechanisms that contribute to the pathophysiology of immunological and behavioral disorders.

Susan Lynch, Professor; University of California, San Francisco

Susan Lynch, PhD

The Lynch lab focuses primarily on the human microbiota in both respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, environmental microbial exposures that shape its development and its role in chronic inflammatory diseases.

Carrie Lucas, Associate Professor, Yale University

Carrie Lucas, PhD

The Lucas lab strives to discover mechanisms of disease driving rare immune disorders, focusing on the genetic, cellular and biochemical underpinnings that can illuminate fundamental biology and broadly inform diagnoses and treatments.

Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhD

The Liu lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms of how morphologic patterns of cytoplasmic antimicrobial granules are affected by genetics and environmental triggers, and their clinical relevance.

Meghan Koch, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Meghan Koch, PhD

The Koch lab studies maternal-fetal interactions, focusing on immunity, metabolism and the microbiota. They are working to identify novel pathways through which maternal-offspring interactions regulate neonatal health.