Alex Berry
in Team
Alex completed his PhD in biology at UPenn, working in Dustin Brisson’s lab where he studied the population genetics of Trypanosoma cruzi in Peru. He was a postdoc with us from 2018-2020, during which time he instrumental in our studies of the microbiome in large animal models. He was the first to show that natural parasite infections are a dominant factor in shaping microbiome structure in humans and animals (preprint here), and his most recent work used pigs to understand the impact of pregnancy and pregnancy history (parity) on the microbiome and offspring colonization (see here). In addition, Alex played a key role in supporting and developing our transcriptomics course, and was one of the lead authors on this perspectives piece that lays out our approach for teaching bioinformatics to bench biologists and how our curriculum was adapted to improve virtual content during the COVID19 pandemic.
