Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, where my lab studies the assembly, transmission, and evolution of host-associated microbial communities. I am interested in understanding where your microbiota comes from in early life, how microbes are transmitted between hosts, and the ecological and evolutionary forces that shape these microbial communities and lineages over your lifespan.

Click around to learn more about my research interests, read some of my publications, or use one of the R packages that I've developed..

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