Dr. Ophelia Venturelli is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. The Venturelli lab aims to understand and engineer microbiomes and host-microbiome interactions for applications spanning human health, built environment and agriculture. Specifically, we combine high-throughput experiments, synthetic biology, computational modeling and multi-objective optimization to discover control knobs in the microbiome and design … Read more

Dr. Martha S. Johnson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, working under the direction of Dr. Jean Cook and co-mentored by Dr. Scott Magness. Her work in the Cook Lab focuses on understanding how the cell cycle … Read more