March 2022
A very warm welcome to Nora Enright, a graduate student in Bioengineering, who will be joining our lab jointly with the Bassick Lab! We’re excited to have you join us!
February 2022
A long overdue congratulations to Dylan Maghini and Bhatt Lab Alumni Fiona Tamburini and Ryan Brewster on the publication of their paper “Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa” in Nature Communications. We were overjoyed to be able to celebrate with Fiona and Dylan in person and walk down memory lane!!
Congratulations to the new Allen Distinguished Investigators Ami Bhatt, Michael Bassik and Livnat Jerby!
December 2021
We enjoyed getting to know each other a bit better during our Bhatt Lab retreat!! We couldn’t be more thankful that it was possible this year. Highlights included a wine, cheese and chocolate tasting hosted by our very own Gabriella Green and Dylan Maghini; science speed dating; and breath-taking hikes along the coast.
Posing with our fearless leader for after the successful completion of our 2021 Bhatt Lab retreat!!!
November 2021
We couldn’t be any prouder of Dr. Brayon Fremin who was awarded the Life 2021 PHD Thesis Award for his recent thesis defense earlier this year!! You can read more about this outstanding award here!!
A very warm welcome to Angela Shang-mei Hickey a Stanford graduate student who will be rotating with us this Winter Quarter!
October 2021
Its the month of celebrations! Congratulations to Danica Schmidtke on passing her Qualifying Exam!! We’re very excited for the things that she will accomplish in the next phase of her graduate career studying crAssphage!!
Big congratulations to Dr. Ben Siranosian on his thesis defense!!! In true Bhatt Lab fashion, we celebrated with a Ben poop emoji piñata and chocolate cake. While he will be sorely missed, we are excited for what he’ll accomplish as a newly minted PhD working at the new Francisco start-up Loyal.
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Severyn who "best poster" award at the Stanford Hematology/Oncology/BMT Research retreat!!
Bhatt Lab takes a group hike at Windy Hill to see the sunset.
Bhatt Lab enjoying the sunset on the Windy Hill summit.
September 2021
We’re so proud of our very own Dr. Aravind Natarajan who was awarded the Stanford Postdoc JEDI Champion Award for his outstanding work championing Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion within the Bhatt Lab, the Departments of Hematology, Genetics, and within Stanford as a whole! We couldn’t think of anyone more deserving of this award!
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August 2021
Congratulations to Summer Vance, our wonderful lab manager, who will be joining the Hadly Lab in the Biology Department at Stanford!
Welcome to Gabriella Green who will be coordinating several of the clinical research studies the Bhatt Lab is involved in! We’re so excited to have you join us!
A big warm welcome to Dr. Yishay Pinto, who just completed the move from Israel to the Bay Area! We couldn’t be happier to finally have the chance to meet in the same time zone!
And another warm welcome to Matthew Owen Gill, a Stanford Genetics first year graduate student who will be rotating in our lab this Fall Quarter!
July 2021
Warmest welcome to Dr. Rachael Chanin who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Scholar from Dr. Sebastian Winter’s Lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center! We’re excited she just completed the move from Texas to the Bay Area along with her dog Jake, who’s already stolen our hearts and we haven’t even met yet!
A big congratulations to Bhatt Lab alumna Dr. Tessa Andermann whose Phase I trial of a Fructo-Oligosaccharide Prebiotic in in Adults Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation was accepted for publication in Transplantation and Cellular Therapy! You can read all the juicy details here!
In other exciting news, the work by Dr. Aravind Natarajan and Alvin Han on developing a standardized method to analyze SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA levels in stool has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications! You can read more about it ahead of publication here!
June 2021
Congratulations to Meena Chakraborty, Mai Dvorak, Aaron Behr, and Danica Schmidtke on joining the Bhatt Lab! We’re so excited to have them as our newest group of graduate students!
January 2021
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Brayon Fremin on his outstanding defense! Incredible work!
Welcome to our winter rotation students, Meena Chakraborty and Mai Dvorak! We’re so excited to get to know you!
November 2020
Hugest congratulations to Dr. Matt Durrant on his successful PhD defense! We are so proud of you!
September 2020
A big welcome to our fall rotation students, Danica Schmidtke and Aaron Behr!
July 2020
Congrats to Matt Durrant on his SmORFinder preprint!
May 2020
A warm welcome to Ann Lin, who is joining the lab jointly with the Bassik lab.
Congratulations to lab undergrads Navami and Sandra for being awarded the DevBio VPUE award and VPUE major grants to conduct full time research this summer!
Congrats to Brayon on his preprint: “Repurposing Ribo-Seq to provide insights into structured RNAs”
April 2020
Lab alumnus Ryan Brewster was featured in an article for his hard work in designing illustrations and materials for COVID-19 science communication. We’re proud of you, Ryan!
March 2020
Congrats to Brayon on his preprint: “A combined RNA-Seq and comparative genomics approach identifies 1,085 candidate structured RNAs expressed in human microbiomes”
June 2017
Matt Durrant has joined the lab! Welcome Matt, we’re excited to have you join the team!
December 2016
Congrats to Joyce Kang for being awarded the ThermoFisher Scientific Antibody Scholarship!
Congrats to Tessa Andermann for being awarded the Stanford Dean's Fellowship!
September 2016
We welcome our rotation students Margaret Antonio, Matthew Buckley, Matthew Durrant!
July 2016
The Bhatt lab awarded The Stanford Rosenkranz Prize to launch microbiome project in Africa. Read more about the project here.
May 2016
Ami Bhatt has been named one of the 2016 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Awardees. The lab congratulates our fearless leader on this accomplishment!
The Bhatt lab awarded the McCormick and Gabilan award to support the lab's bacterial metaepigenomics project.
April 2016
Exciting news! Lab alumna Veronica Manzo was just named a Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation Fellowship award winner for 2016. Congratulations to Veronica!
February 2016
Congratulations to Eli Moss, who gave his first national oral presentation at ASBMT in Honolulu, HI!
January 2016
Congrats to Joyce Kang for being awarded the Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship! She was also a 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholar and was selected return to Washington, D.C. this summer as a counselor and organizer of this year's National Recognition Weekend, sponsored by the White House and the Department of Education.
December 2015
Congratulations to Fiona Tamburini and Jessica Ribado - both passed their PhD qualifying exams this month - bringing the Bhatt lab to a record four of four graduate students passing their qualifying exams within one quarter! Phew!
Some of the work our laboratory does was featured in the 2016 Stanford Medicine Report!
October 2015
Congratulations to Eli Moss and Brayon Fremin - both passed their PhD qualifying exams this week!
Oct 1: The Bhatt lab turns 1 year old today! A piñata party is in order!
June 2015
The Bhatt lab is excited to welcome Misbah Surani to the group for the summer!
We're super excited that all four of the Bhatt lab graduate students have been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!! Congratulations Fiona, Jessica, Eli, and Brayon!