 Postdoctoral Scholar, 2023- Ph.D. in chemistry Unfair advantage: Knows chemical shifts
Interests: Function of microbial metabolism in interactions |
 Postdoctoral Scholar, 2021- Ph.D. Unfair advantage: Knows what the gut-brain axis is
Interests: Role of the microbiome in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease |
 Lab Manager, 2017- B.A. Microbiology Unfair advantage: makes the best lab signs, infinite patience
Interests: training and assisting the next generation of microbiologists |
 Administrative Assistant, 2022- Unfair advantage: Not afraid of doodle polls
Interests: Making the Hooper the best place to work |
 Postbaccalaureate trainee BA in Cell and Molecular Biology Unfair advantage: Understands Gen Z lingo
Interests: Ketogenesis and bioinformatics |
 Junior Specialist B.A. Unfair advantage: I like my coffee and chai without milk and sugar
Interests: Integrating metagenomic and metabolomic data |
 Director, UCSF Gnotobiotic Core, 2014- Ph.D. Molecular Cell Biology, B.Sc. Biology Unfair advantage: can coordinate dozens of projects at once
Interests: accelerating and improving gnotobiotics |
 BMS MSTP student, 2022- B.A. Unfair advantage: Great at maths
Interests: bacterial interactions, bioinformatics, bioactives |
 Junior Specialist, 2023- BA Unfair advantage: Knows the secret to Blue Bottle coffee
Interests: Measuring and isolating microbial bioactives |
 Postdoctoral Scholar, 2017- Ph.D. in Immunology, B.A. in Biology Unfair advantage: science hiakus, knows all the interleukins
Interests: control of immune function by bacterial metabolites |
 Professor, 2014- Ph.D. in Genomics, B.A. in Biochemistry, Minor in Film Studies Unfair advantage: was in the room where it happened
Interests: predicting and controlling the metabolism of complex microbial communities |
 BMS Graduate Student, 2021- B.A. in Biology, NSF Graduate Fellow Unfair advantage: Can think like a mouse
Interests: Sexually dimorphic host-microbiome interactions |
 Junior Specialist, 2023- B.A. Neuroscience Unfair advantage: Gets direct sunlight before morning coffee
Interests: Understanding and manipulating the gut microbiome-brain axis |
 Assistant Professor, 2018- M.D., Ph.D. Unfair advantage: Never vaped before
Interests: Ketogenesis, ethnicity, COVID-19 |
 Postdoctoral Scholar, 2023- Ph.D. in food science Unfair advantage: Can KO a gene in a day
Interests: Microbiome editing |