Poster Session 2025
“Understanding the microbiome may transform our understanding of how healthy bodies become diseased, how aging leads to infirmity, and how we could alter our internal ecosystems to prevent and treat a vast range of conditions.”
– Michelle A. Williams, Former Dean, Harvard Chan School
Email
hcmph@hsph.harvard.edu
Location
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Poster Session 2025
** = Selected for short talk
| Presenter Name | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Amanda Adams | Gram-positive bacterial peptidoglycan reduces HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection Amanda N. D. Adams, Lauren E. Simmons, Amerria Causey, Virginia J. Glick, Miranda Gavitt, Desmond Richmond-Buccola, Cecilia Kim, Maryam Ahmad, Maya Jackson, Smita Gopinath |
| Scarlet Au | A human vaginal bacterial genome catalog reveals distinct antibiotic resistance patterns in Prevotella bivia from diverse geographies Scarlet M. Au, Matthew R. Hayward, Seth M. Bloom, Fatima-Aysha Hussain, Michael T. France, Jiawu Xu, Erin Yuan, Nomfuneko A. Mafunda, Suuba M. Demby, Musie S. Ghebremichael, Justin K. Rice, Jonathan M. Urbach, Upasana Das Adhikari, Nondumiso Xulu, Thandeka Gumbi, F. Xolisile Ceasar, Mary Dong, Krista L. Dong, Nasreen Ismail, Thumbi Ndung’u, David A. Relman, Jeanne M. Marrazzo, Jacques Ravel, Caroline M. Mitchell, Curtis Huttenhower, Joseph A. Elsherbini, Douglas S. Kwon |
| Dayakar Badri | Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Early Life Microbiome Colonization in a Canine Model Tobyn Branck, Jacob T. Nearing, Amrisha Bhosle, Matthew I. Jackson, Artemis S. Louyakis, Kelsey N. Thompson, Dayakar V. Badri, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Alexander Chan | Gut Microbial Composition and Function Associated with Antidepressant Response: Evidence from a Community-based Cohort of Older Adults Alexander Chan,Etienne Nzabarushimana, Curtis Huttenhower, Yiqing Wang |
| Marina Chen | Microbial transmission and ecology in human and environmental microbial communities in childcare centers Di Chen, Ya Wang, William A. Nickols, Daniel M. Portik, Jeremy E. Wilkinson, David C. Christiani, Eric A. Franzosa, Kelsey N. Thompson, John D. Spengler, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Jose Collado | Probiotic Administration for Depressed Adolescents: Protocol for a Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial Jose O. Collado, Tony T. Yang, Cherry Leung |
| Deepika Dinesh | Gut Microbial Variations Associated with Proton Pump Inhibitor Use in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study Deepika Dinesh, Xochitl Morgan, Hanseul Kim, Tammy M. Scott, Mahdi Garelnabi, Jong Soo Lee, Kelsey M. Mangano, Long H. Nguyen, Curtis Huttenhower, Katherine L. Tucker, Natalia Palacios |
| Danyue Dong | A Multi-Omics Study of Individual Responses to Long-Term Mediterranean Diet Interventions in the DIRECT-PLUS Trial Danyue Dong, Yuxi Liu, Meir J. Stampfer, Iris Shai, Curtis Huttenhower, Dong D. Wang |
| Jiayi Duan | Understanding the Human Virome in Time and Space: Methods Development Jiayi Duan, Andrew Marques, Matt Hogenauer, Young Hwang, Julia Malnak, Scott Daniel, Ronald G. Collman, Frederic D. Bushman |
| Guilherme Fahur Bottino | Charting Global Patterns of Gut Microbiome Maturation in Infancy through Microbial Age Modeling Guilherme Fahur Bottino, Kevin S. Bonham, Shelley H. McCann, Fadheela Patel, Kirsty Donald, Curtis Huttenhower, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj |
| Jasmine Garcia | Gut Microbes Enhance Intestinal Regeneration Following DSS Injuries Jasmine R. Garcia, Jeremie Rispal, Elvira Mennillo, Donna Leet, Kathy Lee, Michael G. Kattah, Ophir D. Klein |
| McKenzie Gehris | Investigating Gut Microbial Bile Salt Hydrolase Structure and Function with Activity-Based Probes and Inhibitors McKenzie K. Gehris, Morgan E. Walker, Elizabeth V. Jones, Gabriella Battaglini, Amanda L. Graboski, Sara M. Pacini, A. Sloan Devlin, Matthew R. Redinbo |
| Ishika Gupta | Polyamines at the Diet–Microbiome–Cancer Axis: Nutritional Modulators of Gut and Tumor Ecosystems Ishika Gupta |
| Mariss Haddad | Novel Dietary Glycan for Targeted Microbiome Modulation Mariss Haddad, Matthew R. Hayward, Travis Korosh, Helen Churchill, James Treganowan, Vincent J. van Buul, and Brian A. Klein |
| Anna Happel | Culturally-acceptable fermented grain improves gut health in South African postpartum mothers in a randomized trial Anna-Ursula Happel, Katie M. Strobel, Obakeng Jona, Janine Fredericks, Brian Kullin, Brandon Perumaul, Adeebah Rakiep, Marjanne Senekal, Sonia Malczyk, Johanna H. Nel, Marijke A. Fagan-Endres, Jo-Ann S Passmore, Heather B. Jaspan |
| Kayla Hazlett | Vanilla, chocolate, or twist? Exploring the different flavors of bovine liver abscesses using shotgun metagenomics Kayla Hazlett, Cory A. Wolfe, Paul S. Morley, and Lee J. Pinnell |
| Lauren Hutchinson | Gut microbial β-glucuronidases in androgen reactivation and health implications Lauren Hutchinson, Josh Sekela, Valentina Lagomarsino, McKenzie Gehris, Meenakshi Rao, and Matthew Redinbo |
| Jordan Jensen | Dramatically improved viral profiling from metagenomes and metatranscriptomes using marker sequence identification Jordan Jensen, Sagun Maharjan, Moreno Zolfo, Philipp C. Münch, Will Nickols, Bailey Bowcutt, Qianwen Li, Jennifer Lin, Nicola Segata, Eric A. Franzosa, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Charles Jo | Evolutionary Landscapes of Antimicrobial Resistance Across Oxygen Tensions Charles Jo, Gabriel L. Lozano-Betancourt, Daniel Hart, Ahmad S Khalil, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum |
| María Alejandra Jové | A human gut commensal andType 1 Diabetes (T1D) Pathogenesis Khyati Girdhar, Audrey Randall, Keiichiro Mine, Maria Jove,Alessandro Pezzella, Clarissa Howard, Lukas Rhodes, Emrah Altindis |
| Tanya Karagiannis | Integrative analysis across metagenomic taxonomic classifiers Tanya T. Karagiannis, Ye Chen, Sarah Bald, Albert Tai, Sofiya Milman, Stacy Andersen, Thomas T. Perls, Daniel Segre, Paola Sebastiani, Meghan I. Short |
| Jae Sun Kim | From metabolomics to mechanism: characterizing hippurate metabolism in the vaginal microbiota Jae Sun Kim, Aaron B. Abai, Meilin Zhu, Douglas S. Kwon, Seth M. Bloom |
| Younhun Kim | Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain Younhun Kim, Colin J. Worby, Sawal Acharya, Lucas R. van Dijk, Daniel Alfonsetti, Zackary Gromko, Philippe N. Azimzadeh, Karen W. Dodson, Georg K. Gerber, Scott J. Hultgren, Ashlee M. Earl, Bonnie Berger, Travis E. Gibson |
| Helle Krogh Pedersen | Single Nucleotide Variants Enable Accurate Strain Detection in Complex Vaginal Microbiota Mixtures Helle Krogh Pedersen, Pernille N Myers, Jacob Russel, and H. Bjørn Nielsen |
| Valeria Lugo-Mesa | Integrative Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Profiling of Salmonella and Microbial Communities in Fecal and Environmental Holding Pond Samples from Cattle Feedlots Valeria Lugo-Mesa, Enrique Doster, Brandy Burgess, Nikki Shariat, Benjamin J. Newcomer, Vinicius Machado, Juan Pineiro, Robert Valeris-Chacin, Matthew A. Scott, Paul S. Morley, and Lee J. Pinnell |
| Wenjie Ma | Microbiome-associated growth faltering in HIV-exposed but uninfected children Wenjie Ma, Etienne Nzabarushimana, Andrew Chan, Curtis Huttenhower, Lisa M. Bebell |
| Dan MacDonald | Incorporating Prior Knowledge of Species Interactions in Microbial Dynamical Systems Models Dan MacDonald, Travis Gibson |
| Sithija Manage | Kernel Regression with Tree-Exploring Aggregations Sithija Manage, Y. Samuel Wang, Martin T. Wells, Saurabh Mehta |
| Olivia Maurer | Structural and Func,onal Characteriza,on of Human Gut Microbial Sialidases Focused on Infant Microbiome Development Olivia L. Maurer, Valen S. Chapel, Mark E. Kowalewski, Matthew R. Redinbo |
| Nicholas Medearis | Harnessing Generative AI to Build a Foundation Model for Human Microbiome Analysis and Precision Medicine Nicholas A. Medearis and Ali R. Zomorrodi |
| Steven Medina | The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Microbiome Collection Core Steven Medina, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Maeva Metz | Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites Regulate Atopic Disease Maeva L Metz, Emily P Balskus |
| Xochitl Morgan | The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Microbiome Analysis Core Xochitl C. Morgan, Lauren J. McIver, Thomas Kuntz, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Jacob Nearing ** | Gut microbiome-metabolome interactions during low carbohydrate foods of varied composition Jacob T. Nearing, Veronica Perdomo, William A. Nickols, Tobyn Branck, Amrisha Bhosle, Christoph Brockel, Dayakar Badri, Curtis Huttenhower, Matthew Jackson, Kelsey N Thompson |
| William Nickols | MaAsLin 3: Refining and extending generalized multivariable linear models for meta-omic association discovery William A. Nickols, Thomas Kuntz, Jiaxian Shen, Sagun Maharjan, Himel Mallick, Eric A. Franzosa, Kelsey N. Thompson, Jacob T. Nearing, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Etienne Nzabarushimana | Pulsed antibiotic therapy and lateral gene transfer events Etienne Nzabarushimana, Philipp C. Münch, Jiaxian Shen, Hanseul Kim, Daniel R. Sikavi, Tiffany Hsu, Alice C. McHardy, Eric A. Franzosa, Curtis Huttenhower, Long H. Nguyen |
| Askarbek Orakov | Defining the female genital tract virome A. Orakov, J. Jensen, S. Maharjan, EA. Franzosa, S. Rakoff-Nahoum, C. Huttenhower |
| Mustafa Özçam | Enhanced Gut Microbiome Capacity for Protein Metabolism is Associated with Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Failure Mustafa Özçam, Din L Lin, Chhedi L Gupta, Allison Li, Lisa M Wheatley, Carolyn H Baloh, Srinath Sanda, Stacie M Jones, Susan V Lynch |
| Tathabbai Pakalapati | Gut Microbiome and Virome Associated with Diabetes in Boston-Area Puerto Rican Adults Tathabbai Pakalapati, Kelsey M. Mangano, JongSoo Lee, Deepika Dinesh, Katherine L. Tucker, Xochitl Morgan, Curtis Huttenhower, Natalia Palacios |
| Audrey Randall | The Impact of Parabacteroides distasonis on the Gut Microbiome, Immune Responses, and Diabetes Onset Khyati Girdhar, Audrey Randall, Keiichiro Mine, Clarissa Howard, Alessandro Pezzella, Dogus Dogru, Lukas Rhodes, Juan Henao, Pavla Šašinková, Tomas Hudcovic, Martin Schwarzer, Michael Kiebish, Emrah Altindis |
| Yesica Daniela Roa Pinilla | Relationship Between Seed Gene Expression, Microbiome, and Flavor Development in the Fermentation of Colombian Fine and Flavor Cocoa Roa-Pinilla Yesica Daniela, Delgadillo Paola, Caro-Quintero Alejandro, Yockteng Roxana |
| María Alejandra Rodriguez-Alfonso ** | Study of the bacterial diversity associated with cocoa fermentation on farms in Arauca María Alejandra Rodriguez-Alfonso, Alejandro Caro-Quintero, Carol V Amaya-Gómez |
| Patrick Rynkiewicz | Classifying Beer Yeast Strains Using Interpretable Machine Learning and Transcriptomics Patrick Rynkiewicz, David VanHoute, Spencer Richman |
| Laura Schell | Fitness and energy trade-offs after early-life microbiome disruption differ by sex and antibiotic dose Laura D. Schell, Grace Rubin, Eric Chan, Rachel N. Carmody |
| Jiaxian Shen | Perturbed Gut Viral Ecology in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Multi-cohort Study Jiaxian Shen, Etienne Nzabarushimana, Hanseul Kim, Jordan Jensen, Will Nickols, Daniel R. Sikavi, Evan Sang, Lathrop Chung, Philips Okeagu, Nanako Shirai, Eric A. Franzosa, Curtis Huttenhower, Andrew T. Chan, Kelsey N. Thompson, Long H. Nguyen |
| Meghan Short | Gut microbiome contributions to functional independence in older adults and centenarians Meghan I Short, Ye Chen, Stacy Andersen, Nicole Roth, Tanya T Karagiannis, Sarah Bald, Thomas T Perls, Paola Sebastiani. Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston University |
| Wilhelm Sjöland | Gut microbial metabolites and transit stratify novel irritable bowel syndrome clusters Wilhelm Sjöland, Tom van Gils, Hans Törnblom, Piyush Patel, Jamie Dale Kraft, Fredrik Bäckhed, Karolina Sjöberg Jabbar, Valentina Tremaroli, Magnus Simrén |
| Daniel Sprockett | Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice Daniel D. Sprockett, Brian A. Dillard, Abigail A. Landers, Jon G. Sanders & Andrew H. |
| Melissa Tran | Gut microbial bile acid metabolites modulate Ccl21 expression in the thymus Melissa Tran, Jinseok Park, Ines Zalosnik, Cecilia Kim, Jun Huh, A. Sloan Devlin |
| Benjamin Tully | A Novel qPCR-based Platform for Profiling the Oral Microbiome Benjamin J. Tully, Steven E. Finkel, Christopher H. Corzett |
| Chahat Upreti | Quantifying the viral component of CRC-microbiome associations Chahat Upreti, Kelsey N. Thompson, Etienne Nzabarushimana, Gianmarco Piccinno, Long H. Ngyuyen, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Akshaya Vasudevan | Global variation in gut microbiome composition in healthy infants Akshaya Vasudevan, Padmanaban Venkatesan |
| Emily Venable ** | DNA Metabarcoding to Index Dietary Digestibility and Quantify which Dietary Components Reach and Structure the Gut Microbiome Emily M. Venable, Katia S. Chadaideh, and Rachel N. Carmody |
| Jasmine Walsh | Presentation Title: Gut Bacterial Conversion of Endogenous Corticoids into GALFs Jasmine T. Walsh, Seraina Moser, Megan D. McCurry, Mahmoud Mostafa, Gabriel D. D’Agostino, Alex Odermatt, A. Sloan Devlin |
| Dongyu Wang | Maternal Complex Carbohydrates Diet Enhances Taxonomic Diversity and Metabolic Activities of the Microbiome in Gestational Diabetes and in Their Infants Dongyu Wang, Kameron Y. Sugino, Jacob T Nearing, Curtis Huttenhower, Jacob E. Friedman, Chongle Pan |
| Kai Wang | Linking the Gut Microbiome to Stool and Plasma Metabolites Uncovers the Diet-Microbial Interactions underlying Secondary Bile Acid Production Kai Wang, Ana Nogal, Yancong Zhang, Yujia Lu, Wenjie Ma, Wendy S. Garrett, Long H. Nguyen, Andrew T. Chan, Curtis Huttenhower, Mingyang Song |
| Ya Wang | Rapid and efficient microbial community viability assessment using marker gene targeting Maina Chen, Kelsey N. Thompson, Daisy Lyu, Ya Wang, Curtis Huttenhower |
| Zhongjie Wang | Autologous fecal microbiota transplantation combined with healthy diets induces strain-level microbial shifts and functional changes and attenuates body weight regain Zhongjie Wang, Kelsey N. Thompson, Omer Kamer, Danyue Dong, Ehud Rinott, Fenglei Wang, Meir J. Stampfer, Iris Shai, Curtis Huttenhower, Dong D. Wang |
| Yilun Wu | Dietary and gut microbial determinants of fecal histidine-related metabolites Yilun Wu, Wenjie Ma, Kai Wang, Curtis Huttenhower, Andrew T. Chan |
| Ji Youn Yoo | Association Between Gut Microbiome and Mental Health Symptoms in Firefighters Ji Youn Yoo, Anujit Sarkar, Samia V. Ozorio Dutra, Usha Menon, Maureen E. Groer |