Principal Investigator
Matthew B. Sullivan, PhD, sullivan.948@osu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Jiarong Guo, PhD, guo.1773@osu.edu
Gerid Ollison, PhD, ollison.3@osu.edu
Ricardo Pavan, PhD, pavan.4@osu.edu
Akbar Adjie Pratama, PhD, pratama.3@osu.edu (MicroVerse Postdoc co-mentored with Kirsten Kusel @ Jena, Germany)
James Tan, PhD, tan.1294@osu.edu | (w/ Prakash Lab)
Marion Urvoy, PhD, urvoy.1@osu.edu
Graduate students
Alfonso Carrillo, carrillo.74@osu.edu
Dylan Cronin, cronin.87@osu.edu (w/ Rich Lab)
Marissa R. Gittrich, gittrich.1@osu.
Mohamed Mohamed, mohamed.440@osu.
Kimberley Ndlovu, ndlovu.3@osu.edu
Carlos Owusu-Ansah, owusuansah.10@osu.edu
Dawson Phan, phan.200@buckeyemail.osu.edu (w/ Rich Lab)
James Riddell, riddell.26@osu.edu
Courtney Sanderson, sanderson.107@osu.edu
Rokaiya Nurani Shatadru, shatadru.2@osu.edu
Staff
Ben Bolduc, PhD, bolduc.10@osu.edu, Computational Scientist
Marie Burris, burris.183@osu.edu,Lab Technician
Ami Fofana, fofana.5@osu.edu, Lab Technician
Cristina Howard-Varona, PhD, howard.1264@osu.edu, Research Scientist
Natalie Solonenko, solonenko.2@osu.edu, Lab Manager
Olivier Zablocki, PhD, zablocki.4@osu.edu, Grant Writer
Ahmed Zayed, PhD, zayed.10@osu.edu, Research Scientist
Undergraduates
Cole Bagozzi
Sarah Bon
Kush Doshi
Jonathan Leopold
Hailey Napier
Cara Noel
Lillyanna Quillin
Former Ph.D Students
Ann Gregory, PhD – Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Canada), Canadian Research Chair in Viromics
Cristina Howard-Varona, PhD – Research Scientist at The Ohio State University
Bonnie Hurwitz, PhD – Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Arizona
Julio Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza, MS, PhD – Assistant Professor at Keck Institute of Genomics
Funing Tian, PhD – Staff bioinformatician in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago
Gareth Trubl, PhD – Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dean Vik, PhD – Senior Data Analyst in OSU’s Microbiome Platform
Former MS Students
Jingjie Du – graduated 2020, now PhD student at Cornell University
Emily Hageman – graduated 2024, now Lab Technician at Nestle (Ohio)
Yunxiao Liu – graduated 2019, current position unknown
Sergei Solonenko – graduated 2022, now Instructor at Columbus State Community College
Courtney Sanderson – graduated 2025
Former Postdoctoral Researchers
Elke Allers, PhD – Medical Writer in Germany
Jennifer Brum, PhD – Assistant Professor of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University
Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk, PhD – Research Scientist with Dr. Dan Wozniak at the Ohio State University
Vinh Dang, PhD – Dean of Faculty of Aquaculture at Ha Long University, Vietnam
Li Deng, PhD – Professor / Helmholtz Young Investigator at the Institute of Virology at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany
Guillermo Domínguez Huerta, PhD – Postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) of Malaga, Spain
Melissa Duhaime, PhD – Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan
Joanne Emerson, PhD – Associate Professor of Plant Pathology at UC Davis, CA
Sheri Floge, PhD – Assistant Professor of Biology at Wake Forest University, NC
Consuelo Gazitua, PhD – Scientific consultant for Viromica Consulting, Chile
Katherine Hargreaves, PhD – Self-employed science writer and consultant, UK
Karin Holmfeldt, PhD – Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden
Cristina Howard-Varona, PhD – Research Scientist in the Sullivan Lab
Ho Bin Jang, D.V.M., PhD – Research Professor at the Korean Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Simon Roux, PhD – Research Scientist at DOE Joint Genome Institute
Garrett Smith, PhD – Senior Data Analyst in OSU’s Microbiome Platform
Lindsey Solden, PhD – Director of Data Science & Analytics at Molekule
Christine Sun, PhD – Senior Data Analyst in OSU’s Microbiome Platform
Olivier Zablocki, PhD – Grant Writer in the Sullivan Lab and the Center of Microbiome Science at OSU
Ahmed Zayed, PhD – Research Scientist in the Sullivan Lab
Zhiping Zhong, PhD – Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at the Ohio State University
James Wainaina, PhD – Assistant Professor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Joint Program with MIT)
Jiarong Guo, PhD – Postdoctoral Research at the University of Michigan
Former Staff
Nirmala Bardiya, PhD
Amanda Borens
Lauren Chittick – Research specialist at the Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine (Arizona)
Becky Nankivell
Martha Nieset
Bonnie Poulos – Assistant Staff Scientist at The University of Arizona EEB Dept (Arizona)
