Our Team
Amber Huynh
GRIPS Fellow
Amber is a 2024 Genomics Research Internship Program (GRIPS) fellow at Stanford University. Her research interests lie in understanding how the microbiome changes with age.
Karla Araracap
GRIPS Fellow
Karla is a 2024 Genomics Research Internship Program at Stanford (GRIPS) (GRIPS) fellow. Her research focuses on exploring the differences in the microbiome between males and females.
Tess Yan Cheng
Intern
Tess is a 2023 summer student from the Stanford University Department of Genetics. Her research focuses on the skin microbiome and its relationship to skin diseases. Tess is developing methods to match donors and recipients for skin microbiome transplantation.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at Univeristy of Washington.
Haley Oba
GRIPS Fellow
Haley is a 2023 GRIPS Fellow from Stanford University School of Medicine. She is focused on the statistical analysis of the microbiome, with her current project centered on power and sample size calculation for microbiome studies.
Current Position:Undergraduate Student at Columbia University
Dorothy Zhang
Intern
Dorothy is a 2024 intern at Stanford University School of Medicine, hailing from Menlo School. Her current focus is on culturomics, where she is dedicated to isolating and studying unique bacterial strains from the human microbiome.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at Northwestern University
Andre Rayner
GRPIS Fellow
Andre is a 2023 GRIPS fellow at the Stanford University Department of Genetics. He is interested in the gut-brain axis. Andre is developing causal inference models to understand the role of the microbiome in human depression.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Demkowicz
JAX Summer Fellow
Patrick participated in the 2016 Summer Student Program at The Jackson Laboratory. His research focuses on the animal microbiome, comparing microbiomes in the context of aging and caloric restriction.
Current Position: MD student at Yale Univeristy