The Sonnenburg Lab


Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Fairchild Science Building, Rm D307a
299 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5124

Current Members

Justin L. Sonnenburg

Principal Investigator

Erica D. Sonnenburg

Senior Research Scientist

Philip Bulterys

Postdoctoral Fellow

Arianna Burke

Animal Care Assistant

Elisa Caffrey

Graduate Student

Matt Carter

Graduate Student

Emily Ebel

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jessica Fessler

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rebecca Gellman

Graduate Student

Leah Guthrie

Postdoctoral Fellow

Emma Guiberson

Postdoctoral Fellow

Steven Higginbottom

Gnotobiotic Specialist

Thy Nguyen

Lab Manager

Matt Olm

Postdoctoral Fellow

Elektra Kantzari Robinson

Postdoctoral Fellow

Maggie Santos

Research Assistant

Handuo Shi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sean Spencer

A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow

Tadashi Takeuchi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brian Yu

Scientist, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Lab Alumni

Purna Kashyap

Visiting Clinical Research Fellow

Elaine Ballinger

Undergraduate Researcher

Katherine Wu

Undergraduate Researcher

Jessica Ferreyra

Graduate Student

Rachel Taylor

Postdoctoral Fellow

Josh Lichtman

Graduate Student, Elias Lab

Jonathan Lynch

Graduate Student

Angela Marcobal

Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Scientist

Kristen Earle

Graduate Student

Sara Fisher

Reports Editor

Payal Joglekar

Graduate Student

Audrey Southwick

Staff Scientist

Weston Whitaker

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sam Smits

Graduate Student

Dylan Dodd

Clinical Research Fellow

Gabi Fragiadakis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jackson Gardner

Research Assistant

Lisa Manzanete

Undergraduate Researcher

Katharine Ng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Liz Shepherd

Graduate Student

Carolina Tropini

Postdoctoral Fellow

Maddie Topf

Research Assistant

Anmy Tran

Animal Care Assistant

Surya Tripathi

Research Assistant

Andrea Fisher

Research Assistant

Andrew Hryckowian

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dylan Dahan

Graduate Student

Kali Pruss

Graduate Student

Michelle St. Onge, MPH

Lab Manager

Will Van Treuren

Graduate Student

Hannah Wastyk

Graduate Student

Evelyn Lemus

Research Assistant

Fatima Enam

Postdoctoral Fellow

Shuo Han

Postdoctoral Fellow

Bryan Merrill

Graduate Student