Welcome, Taylor!

We are so proud and grateful that another star postdoc has decided to join our lab: Taylor Hanh Nguyen. She joins us from far away … KC huang’s lab in our department… Welcome!!!!

Taylor completed her PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford with Prof. KC Huang with a focus on uncovering the ecological determinants that govern community assembly in the gut microbiome. In her PhD, she worked on a diverse set of projects under this theme, including building computational models to predict community assembly, characterizing the effect of drugs on the gut microbiome, profiling Salmonella transcriptional dynamics during invasion, and using bacteriophages for precision editing of the gut microbiome. In her postdoctoral research, she hopes to apply her training in quantitative systems biology to understand fungal interactions in fermented foods using Neurospora as a model system. Broadly, she is interested in uncovering the fundamental biology behind the ancient wisdom of fermented foods, empowering the application of these insights to advance both human and planetary health!