Menghan Liu, Ph.D.
Menghan Liu, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Saeed Tavazoie at Columbia University. She received her doctoral training with Martin Blaser and Aris Tsirigos at NYU, where she worked at the interface of human gut microbiome research and bioinformatics, developing computational and experimental approaches to decipher the genetic and transcriptional contributions of gut microbes to host metabolism and disease.
Her postdoctoral work integrates large-scale comparative genomics, functional genomics, and machine learning to uncover conserved genetic programs that govern microbial colonization in the mammalian host. She has identified a compact set of deeply conserved microbial colonization factors across the tree of life and demonstrated their causal roles in modulating bacterial gut colonization using in vivo functional genomics. Her independent research program aims to build predictive and mechanistic frameworks for host–microbiome–pathogen interactions, with the goal of making microbial colonization a controllable and engineerable trait for applications in infectious disease and microbiome-based therapeutics, as well as broader efforts to understand and manipulate complex microbial ecosystems in human health and disease.
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