Benjamin J. Callahan | Associate Professor

Ben is an Associate Professor of Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities in the Population Health and Pathobiology department, and is also affiliated with the Bioinformatics Research Center.

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bcallah@ncsu.edu | Phone: +1 (919) 515-8536

Özge SheRA Kuddar | PhD Student

Özge received a BEng in Bioengineering from Ege University, Turkiye, and an MS in Biotechnology from HS Mannheim, Germany. Before joining the lab, she worked at Duke University, engineering genomes of multiple organisms, including the gut commensal microbe Akkermansia muciniphila. She joined NCSU in 2021 as a Bioinformatics PhD student and works under Dr. Meiklejohn and Dr. Callahan on the DNA metabarcoding project.

Taylor Gin | DVM, PhD Student

Taylor received a BS in Animal Science and DVM from Texas A&M University. She came to NCSU in 2017 for a Small Animal Rotating Internship then continued her time at NCSU as a Clinician Investigator, a combined program which includes a residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine and PhD. Research interests include population health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, host-microbial interactions, and microbiome analysis.

Jorden Rabasco | PhD Student

Jorden received a BS in Biology from Brandeis University, before joining the Callahan lab in the fall of 2021 as a PhD student in the Bioinformatics program. His current research interests include contamination reduction in microbiome experiments, intuitive software development, and assessing bias in microbiome experimentation.

Yixuan Yang | PhD Student

Yixuan received a BS in Statistics from North Carolina State University and joined the Callahan lab in fall 2023 to pursue a PhD in Bioinformatics. His current research interests include statistical analysis of microbial and metagenomic data, the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, and contamination reduction.

Laboratory Alumni

(Position After Working In The Lab)

Craig Gin | Postdoc | Position: Data Scientist, src ftbl

Dmitry Grinevich | Postdoc | Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UNC

David Huang | PhD Student | Position: Senior Scientist, Biostatistics, Merck

Hanna Berman | PhD Student | Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, NCSU

Michael McLaren | Postdoc | Position: Senior Research Scientist, SecureBio

Naga Betrapally | Postdoc | Position: Bioinformatics Analyst IV, National Cancer Institute