Lab Members

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Lawrence David

Lawrence David

I am an Associate Professor in Duke University ’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology  and Center for Genomics & Computational Biology . While at Duke, I have been named one of the 10 Scientists under 40 years old to watch by Science...
Mengyi Dong

Mengyi Dong

Mengyi joined the David Lab as a Post-doc in May 2023. She had a Ph.D. in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a graduate minor in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. in Nutrition Science from George Mason University....
Michelle Kirtley

Michelle Kirtley

Michelle is a Senior Research Analyst who focuses on strategic planning and communication efforts for the lab. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and serves on the Board several non-profits, including Samaritan Health Center,...
Aurian P. Garcia Gonzalez

Aurian P. Garcia Gonzalez

Auri is a third year Surgery Research Fellow and joined the lab as a post-doc in July 2023. She grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to MA in 2012 to complete an MD/PhD. Her thesis research, in Marian Walhout's lab, focused on the development of...
Olivia Osborne

Olivia Osborne

Olivia is a Research Technician for the David Lab working on the metabarcoding project. She graduated in 2022 from UNC with a degree in Biomedical Engineering with concentrations in pharmacoengineering and rehabilitative medicine. She has interests in...
Sharon Jiang

Sharon Jiang

Sharon is a lab research analyst and de facto lab manager in the David Lab. She has an MS in Environmental Sciences and Engineering and a BSPH in Environmental Health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Under the direction of Dr....
Stephen Embree

Stephen Embree

My name is Stephen Embree and I'm an Engineer in the David Lab.
Piper Epstein

Piper Epstein

I’m Piper, an undergraduate student from New Jersey studying the DNA content of food items collected from Duke University Hospital. I hope to better understand how effective our lab’s method of metabarcoding is at reconstructing patient diets. Outside of ...
Pranav Mukund

Pranav Mukund

 I am an undergraduate student from Dallas, Texas, and I intend to major in biomedical engineering with a certificate in health policy. When not in the lab or classroom, I can be found on E-quad hosting events for Engineering Student Government, performing ...
Dorothy Kim Superdock

Dorothy Kim Superdock

Dorothy joined the David Lab as a postdoctoral associate in July 2023. Prior to this position she graduated with her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University where her dissertation focused on the relationships between dietary intake, genetics,...
Matthew Gedye

Matthew Gedye

I am a Research Technician in the David Lab. I was born in South Africa, but grew up in Melbourne, Australia. I obtained my Bachelor of Health Science, majoring in physiology and anatomy, from La Trobe University before spending the next five years in...
Jun Zeng

Jun Zeng

I am a Ph.D. student in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology program. I originally came from Shenzhen, China, and moved to Seattle, where I received my B.S. in both Microbiology and Biology from the University of Washington. My undergraduate research...
Ammara Aqeel

Ammara Aqeel

I am a Ph.D. student in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology program (MGM). I joined the David Lab in 2021. Originally from Pakistan, I came to Duke University in 2015 and graduated with a B.S. in Biology and certificate in Science and Society in...
Ben Neubert

Ben Neubert

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) program and joined the David Lab in 2021. I graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2020. My undergraduate research focused on applying...
Teresa McDonald

Teresa McDonald

I am a Ph.D student in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology program. I graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in biology and philosophy, and I now study interactions between infant diet and the developing gut microbiome....
Jordan Troob

Jordan Troob

Jordan is a senior undergraduate student from New York pursuing a major in Biology. She is sequencing the DNA of food and plant items in the lab and is interested in nutrition and the gut microbiome. Outside of the lab, she enjoys long distance running...
Verónica Carrion

Verónica Carrion

Vero is an MD graduated in Peru. She moved to NC in 2017 and started working at Duke in 2019. I have been working with the David Lab since then. My role as Clinical Research Coordinator is mainly helping with regulatory work and overseeing clinical trials.  ...
David Su

David Su

 I am an undergraduate student from Buffalo, New York, and I am a biology major. Outside of the lab, I enjoy going to the gym, playing basketball, and playing classical music.

PAST LAB MEMBERS

Graduate Students

Brianna Petrone –> Med School At Duke

Jeff Letourneau  –> Expert II at Novartis

Aspen Reese –> Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows –> Assistant Professor, UCSD

Firas Midani –> Postdoctoral Fellow, Britton Lab, Baylor University

Justin Silverman –> Assistant ProfessorPennsylvania State University

Rachael Bloom –> Scientist II at Novozymes

Zachary Holmes –> Bioinformatics Scientist at BIOMILQ

Post-Docs

Max Villa –> Scientist at Baebies, Inc

Staff

Heather Durand

Eric Dallow

Veronica Carrion

Undergraduate students

Nina Dao –> Duke undergrad

Sirena D’Orazio  –> Brown University undergrad

Olivia Lin –> MD student at Duke University

Eric Mastrolonardo –> MD student at Thomas Jefferson University

Lionel Watkins –> PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Virginia

Sai Nimmagadda –> Senior Software Engineer, Optum

Anchi Wu –> NIH IRTA –> MSTP student with Noah Palm at Yale.

Andrew Grover –> NIH IRTA

Cynthia Wang –> Fulbright Fellow (Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity)

Cavin Lau

Savita Gupta

Sam Kim

Miranda Metz

Aiden Fox