Postdoctoral Fellow · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
I lead research at the intersection of pathogen genomics, epidemiology, and computation to understand how respiratory viruses spread, evolve, and generate risk at population scale, informing surveillance, outbreak response, and pandemic preparedness.
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where I lead research in genomic epidemiology of respiratory pathogens. My work integrates large-scale pathogen genomic surveillance with computational and epidemiologic methods to understand viral evolution and transmission in human populations.
I received my Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I characterized the introduction and early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in southern Wisconsin during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Across my work, I aim to develop generalizable genomic surveillance approaches that translate sequencing data into actionable insight for outbreak response and pandemic preparedness. My research has been published in Cell, Nature Communications, NEJM, Nature Medicine, and other leading journals.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Advisor: Prof. Pardis Sabeti, Infectious Disease & Microbiome Program. Genomic epidemiology of respiratory pathogens using population-scale sequencing and computational methods.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Prof. David O'Connor. Thesis: "Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 introduction and spread in southern Wisconsin."
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Certificate in Global Health.
* denotes co-first author · † denotes corresponding author
medRxiv, 2025
New England Journal of Medicine, 2023
Cell, 2022
Nature Communications, 2020
Full Text →PLoS Pathogens, 2021
Full Text →Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021
Full Text →Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
Full Text →Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021
Full Text →PLoS Pathogens, 2021
Full Text →Journal of Virology, 2020
Full Text →bioRxiv, 2020
Full Text →MassCPR Diagnostics, Surveillance, and Epidemiology · Boston, MA
Global Virus Network Short Course · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
UC Santa Cruz Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium · Santa Cruz, CA
NIAID GCID Annual Meeting · Boston, MA
Center for Genomic Medicine Seminar · Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Wellcome Genome Campus · Hinxton, UK
University of Sierra Leone, Bo, Sierra Leone · 2023
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal · 2023
Mentored two undergraduates and one research assistant, leading to Ph.D. acceptances at Emory University and Medical College of Wisconsin, and an M.D. acceptance at UW-Madison.
When Covid Came for Provincetown
CellCover article: Delta variant transmission from vaccinated individuals
The Boston GlobeProvincetown SARS-CoV-2 Delta outbreak investigation
Broad InstituteSeveral pre-existing RSV lineages powered the 2022 surge
Background reporting on COVID-19 genomic surveillance
Background reporting on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics
Nature Communications, Nature Communications Biology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Virus Evolution, Public Health Reviews, Nature Scientific Reports
NIH CREID Pilot Research Program
One Health Genomics Symposium (2024), CREID Network Annual Meeting (2024)
I'm always interested in collaborations and conversations about genomic epidemiology, pathogen surveillance, and computational biology.