I am an Assistant Professor at MIT Biology, Core Faculty at the Broad Institute, and Attending Dermatologist at MGH. I completed my MD-PhD in the Harvard-MIT HST program. My PhD in the laboratory of Michael Laub focused on how bacteria use kinase and phosphatase pathways to generate complex behaviors, such as asymmetric cell division. I then completed my Dermatology residency at UCSF and joined Michael Fischbach's laboratory to work on how skin commensal bacteria interact with the immune system. We discovered that we could rewire one of these commensal-immune interactions to generate anti-cancer T cells. In my lab, we continue to dissect the mechanisms of commensal-immune crosstalk and use these insights to engineer novel therapies. I have been the recipient of the Dermatology Foundation Research Award, the AP Giannini Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellowship.

I grew up in Asunción, Paraguay but went to college in Boston and got my degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Upon graduation, I went back to Paraguay to work for the Ministry of Public Works and Communications as a monitoring and evaluation assistant for water and sanitation projects. In October 2022, I returned to Boston and started working at Broad Institute as an administrative assistant.

I grew up in upstate New York before attending Carnegie Mellon University, where I graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences. I have since worked as a research technician at Boston Children's Hospital in the study of thrombosis and hemostasis and as a lab manager in the study of glycobiology and immunology at Florida International University. In the YEC Lab, I am the lab manager. I am also in charge of collaborative technology development for microbe-host interactions and commensal-based vaccine platforms.

I grew up in Massachusetts and went to Northeastern university where I graduated with degrees in Cell and Molecular Biology and Philosophy. While at Northeastern, I worked in gene editing, cancer, and immunology through two co-ops at Tango Therapeutics and Vor Biopharma, and as an undergraduate researcher in Arlene Sharpe's laboratory at Harvard Medical School. I started my PhD in biology at MIT in fall 2022, and I joined the YEC lab in spring 2023. I am interested in investigating the cellular mechanisms by which cytotoxic T cells are activated by certain skin commensal microbes. Outside of lab, I like to bake, watch movies and sports, and travel.

After surviving 18 years in Florida, I attended the University of Florida where I received my degrees in Microbiology and Computer Science and researched cancer epigenomics in the lab of Dr. Michael Kladde. After college, I worked as a SynBio RA at Octant, where I developed new transcriptional reporters and led a collaboration with the English Lab at the University of Utah. I entered the MIT Biology PhD program in Fall of 2022 and joined the YEC Lab in Spring 2023. I am interested in studying the dynamics of complex skin communities and the mechanisms by which some microbes interface with the immune system. In my free time, I enjoy reading, writing, weightlifting, and programming.

I grew up in China and went to college at the University of Michigan, where I graduated with a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. During my time as an undergraduate and technician, I was part of the Yamashita Lab, studying the regulation of ribosomal DNA expression in Drosophila and exploring how its copy number instability might contribute to karyotype evolution. In fall 2022, I started grad school at MIT Biology, and in spring 2023, I joined the YEC Lab. Here, my research is centered around how skin commensal bacteria influence the generation of T cell memory and the properties of this immune memory. In my free time, I enjoy singing, baking, hiking, and playing tennis.

I am originally from LA and went to school at the University of Chicago where I majored in biochemistry. As an undergraduate researcher I studied nuclear receptor crosstalk in hormonally-driven breast cancers. After graduating in 2018, I worked in Dr. Bruce Spiegelman's lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute studying the physiology and biochemistry of the exercise hormone irisin. I entered the MIT Biology PhD program in fall 2022 and joined the YEC lab in spring 2023. In the YEC lab, I am interested in characterizing how skin commensal microbes communicate with host immune cells across an intact skin barrier. In my free time I enjoy reading, hiking, and playing volleyball.

I am currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. I obtained my bachelor's degree at Caltech in bioengineering and was subsequently a Fulbright scholar at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine. I completed my PhD in biological engineering at MIT in Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute, where I studied the origins of CRISPR-Cas systems from ancestral RNA-guided nucleases encoded in mobile elements, biochemical diversity in CRISPR-Cas systems, and applications of RNA-guided systems for genome and transcriptome editing. In my free time, I play and coach water polo, and enjoy reading.