September 10, 2026
Lab receives funding from the Bezos Earth Fund to advance sustainable fashion.
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September 09, 2026
Lab receives new grant from the NIH to support development of microbiome technologies in the gut
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September 07, 2026
PhD student George Tilton-Low officially joins the lab. Welcome George!
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September 07, 2026
PhD student Shawn Yang officially joins the lab. Welcome Shawn!
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August 28, 2026
Lab receives new grant from the Gates Foundation to advance rotavirus vaccine development.
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May 01, 2026
Lab publishes in Science on making life with a 19 amino acid alphabet! Congrats to Liyuan and all coauthors!
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February 11, 2026
Harris is officially appointed the Chair of the Department of Systems Biology!
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November 24, 2025
Graduate student Yiwei Sun for successfully defending her PhD thesis! Congrats Dr. Sun!
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November 20, 2025
Congrats to Logan Schwanz for successfully defending his PhD thesis.
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November 18, 2025
Lab publishes in Nature Biotechnology on exfoliome RNA sequencing from stool. Congrats to Yiming, Yiwei and all coauthors and collaborators!
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November 13, 2025
Lab publishes in Science on metagenomic editing (MetaEdit) of the gut microbiome in collaboration with Sternberg and Ivanov labs. Congrants to Diego and all co-authors.
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November 07, 2025
Lab publishes in Science Advances on an engineered probiotic that modulates GLP-1 signaling in the gut to reduce inflammation. Congrats to Leonie, Carlotta and all co-authors and collaborators!
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September 15, 2025
Sadhya Garg joins the lab as a new PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program. Welcome Sadhya
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August 28, 2025
Lab receives new NSF grant to build and study synthetic gut microbial communities using new technologies
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August 27, 2025
Lab receives new NSF grant to engineer PPRs for RNA SynBio
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August 18, 2025
Harris is promoted to Full Professor of Systems Biology, Pathology and Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University
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July 18, 2025
Lab publishes new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering on inactivating Shiga-toxin bacteria using CAST. Congrats to Carlotta, Tyler and all co-authors!
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June 25, 2025
Harris is featured in a Japanese manga showcasing his academic journey, sponsored by the Vilcek Foundation
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February 03, 2025
Lab publishes new paper in Nature Microbiology on the spatial organization of the human gut microbiome. Congrats Miles and all co-authors!
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January 13, 2025
Wang lab receives the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Litwin IBD Pioneers Award to accelerate methods for non-invasive gut profiling
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