Principal Investigator
nbroder1@jhu.edu
Nichole is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to arriving at Hopkins in July 2020, Nichole was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Institute for Systems Genomics at the University of Connecticut. From 2013-2015, Nichole was an Associate Research Scientist at the Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Department at Yale University. Nichole received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Ken Raffa (Entomology) and Jo Handelsman (Microbiology) and did her postdoctoral research in the lab of Bruno Lemaitre at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research has focused on characterization of the gut microbiota of insect hosts and study of their impacts on host physiology and susceptibility to disease.
Postdocs
kmayama1@jhu.edu
Krystal earned her Ph.D. in infectomics and molecular pathogenesis from CINVESTAV-IPN and the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP) in 2020, where she studied priming immune response in mosquitoes. She is interested in the insect immune system and host-pathogen interactions. Now, she is focusing on studying the transgenerational impact of the gut microbiome on immunity.
Graduate Students
Sneha earned her B.S. in Microbial Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021 where she studied the role of gut microbes in detoxifying the diets of herbivorous insects. She joined the lab in 2022 and is interested in the effect of interactions between environmental microbes and gut microbes on Drosophila melanogaster.
abarron3@jhu.edu
Alex received a B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Connecticut in 2016. He joined the lab as a Ph.D. student in January of 2018. He is interested in host and microbial factors that control the gut colonization of probiotic bacteria.
mcondon4@jhu.edu
Madison joined the lab in Fall 2017 after earning her B.S. in Microbiology from Colorado State University. She's studying host-pathogen interactions in Drosophila by examining how the immune system responds to infection. She is also interested in understanding how host factors can alter pathogen virulence.
rose.dziedzic@uconn.edu
Rose earned her B.S. in Biology from The College of William & Mary in 2012, where she studied the nuclear translocation of thyroid hormone receptor. She joined the Broderick Lab in 2015 as a Ph.D. student. Rose studies how the gut microbiomes affect immunity and development in Drosophila melanogaster.
Harjit earned her B.S in Biology from Rutgers University-Camden where she studied Circadian Clock and Photoperiodism in Drosophila melanogaster. She joined the Broderick Lab in spring of 2022. Harjit is interested in exploring how seasonality effects microbe-microbe interactions in D.melanogaster.
tmouton1@jhu.edu
Taylar earned her B.S in Molecular Genetics from the University of Rochester in 2019 where she studied the effects of selfish gene elements on D. melanogaster. She joined the Broderick lab in the Spring of 2020. Taylar is interested in studying the interplay between diet and the gut microbiome, and how this relationship could impact oogenesis and embryonic development.
bsoto2@jh.edu
Benji earned his B.S in Biotechnology from Cal Poly Pomona in 2019 where he studied how garlic modifies the host immune response. He joined the Broderick lab in the Spring of 2020. Benji is interested in identifying host molecular mechanisms that are modulated by the microbiome to alter host physiology.
Staff
Jennifer earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2021 where she conducted research on the relationship between sleep and immunity in Drosophila melanogaster. Jennifer joined the Broderick Lab in May of 2022 and looks forward to learning more about microbial communities and microbe/host interactions. She hopes to eventually pursue graduate studies in Microbiology and has a passion for research that could help lead to innovations in climate change mitigation.
ssuba1@jhu.edu
Sheana got her B.S. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida in 2021 where she researched the impact of neurodegenerative diseases on Drosophila melanogaster. She is currently a Master’s student at John’s Hopkins studying Biotechnology. Sheana is also interested in studying microbe interactions in Drosophila melanogaster.