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

 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Rupesh Gawde

Program: PhD in Human Evolutionary Sciences
Email: rsg146@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Luna Wang

Program: PhD in Anthropology
Email: xw347@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

 

Connie Looi

Program:
Email: cl1552@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Daniela Cubur

Program:
Email: dc1574@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Sonia Munawar

Program:
Email:
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Ariel Zhuo

Program:
Email:
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Kassandra Cortez

Program:
Email:
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Margaret Dounis

Program:
Email: md1796@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Ekta Patel

Program:
Email: ekp40@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Joseph Manzano-Santana

Program:
Email: jrm449@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Shivraj Pethe

Program:
Email: sap429@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Sumayya Zaghloul

Program:
Email: snz19@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Emily Chu

Program:
Email: ewc41@rwjms.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Idaliz Herrera

Program:
Email: ih248@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Jorge Arrudi Bara

Program:
Email: ja1523@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Hyungjun Jin

Program:
Email: hj403@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Celine Mirra

Program:
Email: cnm115@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Madelyn Smith

Program:
Email:
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Claudia Grzegorski

Program:
Email: cg1028@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

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
Phone:
Address:

 

 

Filipa Godoy

 

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

 

 

 

Daniela Vargas Robles

 

Microbiome data analyst
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Email: danielavargasrobles@gmail.com
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

Eglee Zent

 

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

 

 

 

Corrie Miller

University Hawaii
Email: millercb@hawaii.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

 

 

Devin Simpkins

Princeton University
Email: ds5687@princeton.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

 

Monica Contreras

Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
Email: monicacontre@gmail.com
Phone:
Address:

 

 

 

Aiswaryaa Prabaharan

Rutgers University
Email: ap2036@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Phone:
Address:

 

 

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)
Alyssa Juenke
Vanessa Garzon Tellez
Janet Johnson (2024)
Audrey Cohen-Marquina (2023)
Diya Kodimala
Jasmine Vo (2023-2024)
Nihad Ali
Sophia Reich
Hibah Malik (2024)
Naveed Loskor (2024)
Camille English,  PhD in Microbial Biology (2019-2025)
Melissa Woortman, PhD in Nutritional Sciences (2019-2025)