Julia Oh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Our central goal is to develop microbiome therapeutics to treat human disease. We use diverse tools like genomics and synthetic biology to investigate our microbiome’s role in our health and engineer therapeutics.

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About Julia Oh, Ph.D.

Our central goal is to develop microbiome therapeutics to treat human disease. We use diverse tools like genomics and synthetic biology to investigate our microbiome’s role in our health and engineer therapeutics.

Education and Experience

Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Postdoc, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Ph.D., Stanford University

B.A., Harvard University

Selected Publications

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Research HighlightJanuary 30, 2020
Taking a close, strain-level look at a skin bacterium
To assess how microbial species are derived and their importance, a team led by JAX Assistant Professor Julia Oh took a hard look at the dynamics of strain diversity for a specific bacterium in human skin, Staphylococcus (S.) epidermidis.
- Microbiome
- Skin Disease
Search MagazineJuly 11, 2019
Q&A With Summer Student Alexa Stewart
Alexa Stewart is a member of the 2019 JAX Summer Student Program, studying the microbiome in the lab of assistant professor Julia Oh, Ph.D. She is a rising sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Press ReleaseSeptember 14, 2018
JAX, Azitra receive Department of Defense grant: Bioengineered commensals to fight Staphylococcus aureus
Next-generation anti-infectives designed to address the evolving issue of drug resistance.
Research HighlightFebruary 28, 2018
Partners in defense against skin cancer
An invisible ally in the fight against cancer? Researchers find evidence that healthy skin microbiomes contain a bacterial strain that helps prevent cancer from growing.

Press ReleaseSeptember 13, 2019
The microbiome and the nursing home
JAX, UConn researchers explore how patients’ microbiome, and risk of infection, change after time in a skilled nursing facility.
Research HighlightDecember 03, 2018
How well does your microbiome grow?
JAX researchers have developed a growth rate index that helps scientists estimate growth rates of microbial communities.
Research HighlightSeptember 13, 2018
Distinguishing the helpful from the harmful in the human microbiome
New JAX research offers insight into how our immune cells are able to tell the difference between helpful bacterial strains and potentially inflammatory or pathogenic strains.
Press ReleaseOctober 05, 2017
New Innovator Award of $2.8M to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Research in skin microorganisms could lead to better therapies for skin and infectious diseases.
- Microbiome
- Cancer