Personnel
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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
76 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
Postdoc Associate
Wessam Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, PhD
Email: wm324@sebs.rutgers.edu
Phone: (848) 932-5665
Address:
Lipman Hall – Room 333A
76 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
Graduate Students
Camille English
Program: PhD in Microbial Biology
Email: c.english@rutgers.edu
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Address:
IFNH Building 2nd Floor
61 Dudley Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Rupesh Gawde
Program: PhD in Human Evolutionary Sciences
Email: rsg146@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Address:
IFNH Building 2nd Floor
61 Dudley Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Jake Lessing
Program: MD/PhD
Email: jkl139@rwjms.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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IFNH Building 2nd Floor
61 Dudley Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Alyssa Juenke
Program: PHARM-PHARMACOLOGY&TOXICOLOGY
Email: alyssa.juenke@rutgers.edu
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Undergraduate Students
Vanessa Garzon Tellez
Program: Evolutionary Anthropology, minor in psychology, and a certificate in Evolutionary Medicine.
Email: vlg37@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Abhijna Bhat
Program: BS in Biochemistry of Microbial Systems, Computer Science
Email: arb294@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Audrey Cohen-Marquina
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Email: amc709@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Diya Kodimala
Program: School of Environmental and Biological Science Honors Program
Email: dk1053@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Kamyaar Kan
Program: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Email: ksk129@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Azra Raza
Program: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Email: ar1854@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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Jasmine Vo
Program: Pharmacy
Email: jfv45@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
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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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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)