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Leading the Microbiome Revolution: UCSF scientists are at the forefront of a movement to advance our understanding of how the human microbiome impacts health and contributes to disease.

Executive Committee

Susan Lynch, PhD

Director, Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine , Professor, Department of Medicine Medicine

Sergio Baranzini, PhD

Professor Neurology

Julie Saba, MD, PhD

Professor Pediatrics

Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD

Associate Professor Dermatology

Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

Professor Microbiology and Immunology

BCMM Ambassadors to the Executive Committee

BCMM Ambassadors are trainees that serve as liaisons between BCMM trainees and Executive Committee. View the complete list of their leadership roles.

Margôt Bacino
Graduate Student

Staff

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Amber Atkinson

Administrative Officer

Jacob Brockert

Research Associate, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Sabrina Chu

Finance Manager

Kristin Dolan, PhD

Associate Director, Operations and Strategy

Darren Dumlao, PhD

Assistant Director, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Ju Eun Jeon, PhD

Research Specialist, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Abdur Rahim Khan, PhD

Manager, Microbial Genomics and Culturing

Jessie Turnbaugh, PhD

Director, Gnotobiotics

Slavena Vylkova, PhD

Scientific Communications Manager

Lu Yang, PhD

Computational Biologist

BCMM Community Members

Our BCMM community of health-focused trainees, clinicians, and scientists are at the forefront of microbiome research, tackling some of the most challenging health issues of our time. Are you interested in becoming a member and joining our community? Learn more about our community.

Katrina Abuabara, MD

Associate Professor Dermatology

Nadav Ahituv, PhD

Professor Bioengineering

Narges Alipanah-Lechner, MD, MAS

Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, PhD

Chloe Atreya, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Medicine

Sagar Bapat, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine Laboratory Medicine

Jody Baron, MD, PhD

Professor Medicine

Pauline Basso, PhD

Postdoc Microbiology and Immunology

James Bayrer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Pediatrics

Barbara Bensing, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Rahul Bodkhe, PhD

Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD

Homer Boushey, MD

Professor Medicine

Riley Bove, MD

Associate Professor, Neurology , UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Max Brondfield, MD

Atul Butte, MD, PhD

Cheri Chapin

Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH

Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Victoria Chu, MD, MPH

Craig Cohen, MD, MPH

Kelsey Collins, PhD

Alexis Combes, PhD

Charles Craik, PhD

Joseph Cuschieri, MD, FACS

Deborah Dean, MD, MPH

Professor Pediatrics

William Degrado, PhD

Alexandra Degraeve, PhD

Elad Deiss-Yehiely, PhD

Erin Dela Cruz, MD, PhD

Pamela Den Besten, DDS

Professor Orofacial Sciences

Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Christopher Dvorak, MD

Najwa El-Nachef, MD

Associate Professor Medicine

Domenique Escobar, MD

Marina Ferrer Clotas, BS

Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH

Gabriela Fragiadakis, PhD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Alan Frankel, PhD

Andrea Garber, PhD, RD

Professor, Pediatrics

James Gardner, MD, PhD

Stephanie Gaw, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Andrei Goga, MD, PhD

Professor Cell and Tissue Biology

Yarden Golan Maor, PhD

Postdoc Bioengineering

Carlos Gomez, MS, BS

Alexander Gonzales

Hani Goodarzi, PhD

Associate Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics

Erin Gordon, MD

Sasha Gorrell, PhD

Assistant Professory Psychiatry

Carol Gross, PhD

Joanna Halkias, MD

Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Hobart Harris, MD

Professor Surgery

Stephen Hauser, MD

Chloe Heath, BS

Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH

Christopher Hernandez, PhD

Sunita Ho, MS, PhD

Christine Hong, DMD, MS

Associate Professor Orofacial Sciences

Edward Hsiao, MD, PhD

Professor Medicine

Holly Ingraham, PhD

Professor

Laura Jelliffe, PhD, MS

Elizabeth Joyce, PhD

David Julius, PhD

Chair and Professor Physiology

Sakeen Kashem, MD, PhD

Postdoc Dermatology

Michael Kattah, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Jessica Keyser, PhD

Mandana Khalili, MD

Professor Medicine

Kanika Khanna, PhD

Wes Kidder, MD

Gretchen Kiser, PhD

Ophir Klein, PhD, MD

Professor Orofacial Sciences

Rebecca Knoll, MD

Andrew Ko, MD

Professor Medicine

Nevan Krogan, PhD

Max Krummel, PhD

Professor Pathology

Carla Kuon, MD

Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA

Associate Professor Medicine

Chaz Langelier, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Nooshin Navidi Latour, BA, MA

Cherry Leung, PhD, RN

Associate Professor Community Health Systems

Sophia Levan, MD, PhD

Lin Li, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Dean's Office School of Medicine

Jingjing Li, PhD

Din Lin, PhD

Staff

Daniel Lowenstein, MD

Ying Lu, PhD, MB

Clinical Research Coordinator Pediatrics

Annie Luetkemeyer

Professor School of Medicine

Averil Ma, MD

Professor Medicine

Shaobo Ma, MSc

Uma Mahadevan, MD

Professor Medicine

Ajay Maker, MD

Alexander Marson, MD, PhD

Margareta Mayer

Christine McDonald, ScD, MS

Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Jacqueline Moltzau, PhD

Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD, MAS

Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH

Jelena Mustra Rakic, PhD

Haley Naik, MD

Associate Professor Dermatology

Mahim Naveed, MS, BS

Renuka Nayak, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Suzanne Noble, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Microbiology and Immunology

Aoife O'Donovan, PhD

Edwin Ortega, PhD

Tomiko Oskotsky, MD

Bioinformatics Programmer, , Computational Health Sciences

Mustafa Ozcam, PhD

Postdoc School of Medicine

Andrea Park, MD

Assistant Professor Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Gina Partipilo, PhD, BSChe

Sorbarikor Piawah, MD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Merisa Piper, MD

Assistant Professor Surgery

Katie Pollard, PhD

Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Sima Porten, MD, MPH

Associate Professor Urology

Arun Prakash Budde, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Anesthesia

Jennifer Price, MD, PhD

Ryan Rampersaud, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Psychiatry

Roberto Ricardo Gonzalez, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor Dermatology

Jeremie Rispal, PhD

Sophie Roeung, NP

Elizabeth Rogers, MD

Oren Rosenberg, MD, PhD

Julie Saba, MD, PhD

Professor Pediatrics

Valeria Sanchez Estrada

Alicia Sanchez Sanz, PhD

Aartik Sarma, MD

Rada Savic, PhD

Professor Bioengineering

Anne Schafer, MD

Sanyog Shitole, MBBS, MPH

Assistant Professor Medicine

Anita Sil, MD, PhD

Marina Sirota, PhD

Ma Somsouk, MD, MAS

Professor Medicine

Matthew Spitzer, PhD

Associate Professor Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Natasha Spottiswoode, MD, PhD

Kristina Stillwell, MD

Skyler Sung

Gloria Tavera, MD, PhD

Jonathan Terdiman, MD

Professor Medicine

Jessica Thai

Xiaoli Tian, PhD

Dara Torgerson, PhD, MSc

Associate Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Vaibhav Upadhyay, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Martin Valdearcos, PhD

Assistant Professor Diabetes Center

Erin Van Blarigan, ScD

Associate Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Archana Venkataraman, PhD

Postdoc Cellular Molecular Pharmacology

Alan Venook, MD

Sofia Verstraete, MD

Associate Professor Pediatrics

Alessandro Villa, DDS, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor

Evan Walker, MD

Assistant Professor Medicine

Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD

Professor Neurology

Jacqueline Weinstein, MD

Assistant Professor Otolaryngology

Catera Wilder, PhD

Natalie Wilson, PhD

Bryan Winn, MD

Professor Ophthalmology

Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH

Professor Pediatrics

Karin Wu, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor Medicine

Huijuan Yan, PhD

Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD

Professor Neurology

Chen Zhang, PhD

Yan Zhang, MD, PhD

Matt Zinter, MD

Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Soumaya Zlitni, PhD, BS

UCSF Students and Residents

Rolake Alabi
Laura Barnes
Chris Bravo
Annamarie Bustion
Jose Collado
Claire Dubin
Laura Dwyer
Veronica Escalante
Domenique Escobar
Haley Gause

Than Kyaw
Xiangpeng Li
Ori Lieberman
Natasha Hunt
Nisha Parmeshwar
Neil Patel
Cindy Pino
Rachel Rock

Lea Sedghi
Rafaella Shima
Spenser Souza
Holly Steininger
Micah Suan
Gloria Tavera
Tori Tran
Kai Trepka
Monet Yuan
Jenny Zhang