What’s happening in the SRN Lab:

July - September 2023

  • Gavin successfully defended his doctoral thesis; congratulations Dr. Kuziel! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors, and are eager to see your future successes!

  • Indriati has left the lab to open her own lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC)! Congratulations Indriati, and best of luck!

April - June 2023

January - March 2023


October - December 2022

July - September 2022

  • Dennis was appointed Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion of the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at BCH

  • Dennis was appointed Associate Program Director of the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) & Boston Medical Center (BMC)

April - June 2022

  • Gavin received a Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Professional Development Award

  • Rishabh Kapoor joined the lab for his doctoral thesis. Welcome Rishabh!

January - March 2022

  • Gavin’s primer on the gut microbiome has been published in Current Biology

  • Sun-Yang’s work on strain-level fitness as an emergent property of glycan-butyrate interactions has been published in Cell


October - December 2021

  • Jing Li joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Jing!

July - September 2021

  • Chitong received a Charles A. King Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  • Krista Cortez joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Krista!

  • Seth received a G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation Grant

April - June 2021

  • Joanne Charles joined the lab as a Clinical Research Coordinator. Welcome Joanne!

January - March 2021

  • Chitong and Kat's work on ecology within the infant gut microbiome has been published in Nature

  • Dennis received the 2021 HMS Harold Amos Diversity Award

  • Elizabeth Perez joined the lab for her doctoral thesis. Welcome Elizabeth!


October - December 2020

  • Dennis received an HMS Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship

July - September 2020

  • Rita Chan joined the lab for her doctoral thesis. Welcome Rita!

  • Charles Jo joined our lab & the Mo Khalil Lab (BU) for his doctoral thesis - Welcome Charles!

April - June 2020

  • Gabriel was named a Pew Latin American Fellow

January - March 2020


October - December 2019

  • Seth received an NIH New Innovator Award

July - September 2019

  • Steven Siegel joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow and received a PSDP fellowship. Welcome Steven!

  • Kevin Lee and Kayla Young joined the lab as research assistants. Welcome!

  • Daniel Sprockett joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Dan!

  • Miranda Fry joined the lab as a Clinical Research Coordinator. Welcome Miranda!

  • Carolyn Richardson joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Carolyn!

  • Indriati received a Physician Scientist fellowship from DDCF

April - June 2019

  • Kat’s review on microbiome competition & cooperation has been published in Current Biology

  • Gabriel Lozano joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Gabriel!

January - March 2019

  • Gavin received an NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowship


October - December 2018

July - September 2018

  • Gavin Kuziel joined the lab for his doctoral thesis (our first student)! Welcome Gavin!

  • Dennis Spencer joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Dennis!

  • The SRN lab moved from our temporary home at BWH to our new space at BCH

April - June 2018

  • Seth was named a Pew Biomedical Scholar

January - March 2018

  • Our website is born