I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology and a member of Dr. Brinkworth Lab and Dr. Stumpf Lab. I am interested in the evolutionary relationship between the host and microbiome and its role in the evolution of immune system responses to pathogens. For my dissertation project, I am studying the evolution of blood microbiome […]
About falnaji@illinois.edu
Tandy Warnow
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Tandy Warnow is the Founder Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also an affiliate in Mathematics, Statistics, Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Animal Biology, Entomology, and Plant Biology. She is a member of the IGB, PEEC, and an affiliate of NCSA. She has published more than 160 […]
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Natalie Christian
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I am a USDA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, advised by Katy Heath (Associate Professor in Plant Biology) and co-advised by Posy Busby at Oregon State University. I am exploring how aboveground and belowground plant symbionts modify each other, and ultimately host plant defense and productivity. Specifically, I am using soybean (Glycine max), […]
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Michael Miller
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I am an Associate Professor in Food Science & Human Nutrition and in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Research in my lab group solves problems related to various aspects of fermentation. Specifically, we (1) develop strategies to improve the safety of fermented dairy products, especially Hispanic-style cheeses; (2) develop contamination solutions for industrial fermentations; and […]
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Danielle Campbell
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I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology, where I work in Dr. Rachel Whitaker’s lab on mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in the human gut. Very little is currently known about the gut mobilome (the sum of all the MGEs in the gut) because most MGEs are inactive at any given time. I […]
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Rebecca Batstone
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a member of the Heath Lab (PI: Katy Heath, Associate Professor in Plant Biology), I am specifically interested in understanding the genetic underpinnings of how nitrogen-fixing bacteria, also known as rhizobia, adapt […]
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Fadi Alnaji
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I am a postdoc at Brooke lab in the Microbiology department. I work on the influenza virus, particularly on investigating the role of Defective Interference Particles (DIPs) in the evolution of the virus. Influenza DIPs are sub-genomic RNAs generated by erroneous replication of the full-length wild-type (WT) genomes during the infection, as a result, they possess a […]
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