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.
Visit out my lab website for more up-to-date information about my research: The Sprockett Lab
Research Interests
- Host-Microbiome Interactions
- Ecological Theory (Community Assembly)
- Genome Evolution
- Scientific Reproducibility
Scientific Training
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CIHMID Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell University - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (2025)
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Research Fellow
Boston Children's Hospital - Infectious Diseases (2020)
Harvard Medical School - Pediatrics (2020)
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PhD - Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University (2019)
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MSc - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Kent State University (2009)
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BSc - Cellular & Molecular Biology
Kent State University (2006)