Team

 

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

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Laboratory Alumni

Craig Gin | Postdoc | Current position: Data Scientist, src ftbl

Dmitry Grinevich | Postdoc | Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UNC

David Huang | PhD Student | Current position: Senior Scientist, Biostatistics, Merck

Hanna Berman | PhD Student | Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, NCSU

Michael McLaren | Postdoc | Current position: Senior Research Scientist, SecureBio

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