Julia Oh, Ph.D.

Associate 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

Associate 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 25, 2021
Investigating what makes good bacteria go bad
Five-year grant funds first study of genetic diversity and function of S. epidermidis strains to reveal a shift from benign to infectious.
- Microbiome
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 HighlightMay 19, 2020
Finding bacterial strain growth rates in microbiome samples
To understand microbiome dynamics, it’s important to identify not only which microbial species are present in a given sample, but also to determine their growth rates.
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.