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Personnel

Principal Investigator

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD

Departmental Affiliations
• Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Primary)
• Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences (Joint)

Center & Institute Affiliations
• New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (Director)
• Global Health Institute
• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute – EOSHI

Contact Information
76 Lipman Drive
Office 333C
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
mg.dominguez-bello@rutgers.edu
(848) 932-5664

 

Research Associate

Haipeng Sun, PhD

Email: hs862@sebs.rutgers.edu
Phone: (848) 932-5665
Address:
Lipman Hall – Room 333B

 

 

Postdoc Associate

Wessam Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, PhD

Wessam

Email: wm324@sebs.rutgers.edu
Phone: (848) 932-5665
Address:
Lipman Hall – Room 333A

 

Graduate Students

Camille English

Program: PhD in Microbial Biology
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Rupesh Gawde

Program: PhD in Human Evolutionary Sciences
Email: rsg146@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Luna Wang

Program: PhD in Anthropology
Email: xw347@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Melissa Woortman, MS RD

Program: PhD in Nutritional Sciences
Email: maw317@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Alyssa Juenke

Program: PHARM-PHARMACOLOGY&TOXICOLOGY
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Undergraduate Students

Vanessa Garzon Tellez

Program: Evolutionary Anthropology, minor in psychology, and a certificate in Evolutionary Medicine.
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Janet Johnson

Program: BS in Biology and minoring in Sociology
Email: jlj191@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Audrey Cohen-Marquina

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Diya Kodimala

Program: School of Environmental and Biological Science Honors Program
Email: dk1053@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Jasmine Vo

Program: Pharmacy
Email: jfv45@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Sumayya Zaghloul

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Punya Balwalli 

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Eva Rehman

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Nihad Ali

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Yaro Varnichenko

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Sophia Reich

Program: BS in Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Art History
Email: sjr236@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Hibah Malik

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Naveed Loskor

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Rhea Palliath

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Connie Looi

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Visiting fellows

Anna M. Dulencin

Assistant Research Professor
Director, Science and Politics Program
Eagleton Institute of Politics
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Email: anna.dulencin@eagleton.rutgers.edu
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Filipa Godoy

 

Associate Professor and PI Microbiome Lab
University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine
Email: filipa.godoy@upr.edu
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Daniela Vargas Robles

 

Microbiome data analyst
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Email: danielavargasrobles@gmail.com
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Eglee Zent

 

Human Ecology Laboratory
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
Email: egleezent@gmail.com
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Corrie Miller

University Hawaii
Email: millercb@hawaii.edu
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Devin Simpkins

Princeton University
Email: ds5687@princeton.edu
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Monica Contreras

Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
Email: monicacontre@gmail.com
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Former students

Corey Lacher, Research Technician (2016-2018)
Aishwarya Nathan, Master in Microbiology (2018-2019)
Melina Luu, Bachelor in Anthropology (2018-2019)
Sherry Wong, Bachelor in Microbiology (2018-2019)
Jared Lim, Bachelor in Microbiology (2019)
Emily Ali, Bachelor in Genetics (2019)
Jarrick Lam (2019)
Libby Wu (2019)
Aviva Menashy
Shibbu Sharma (2019)
Rizelin Benito (2019-2020)
Gabbi Pelofski (2020-2021)
Waner Zheng (2021)
Sofia Dvinskikh (2021)
Manasi Marayan (2021)
Alex Cai, Master in Microbiology (2019-2021)
Nathalia Naspolini, Visiting Student (2019-2021)
Ciarra Williams, Master in Microbiology (2020-2022)
Margot Shumaker (2022)
Anya Gowda (2020-2022)
Abe Tsvik (2020-2022)
Zoe Reich (2021-2022)
Islam EL JADDAOUI (2022)
Alexandra Deutsch (2022-2023)
Se-Ah Kim (2022-2023)
Seena Samuel (2023)
Yichen Jiang (2023)
Jeremy Lessing, MD/PhD (2020-2024)
Abhijna Bhat, BS in Biochemistry of Microbial Systems （2022-2024)
Kamyaar Kan, (2023)
Azra Raza, (2023)