Farmington, CT
Our central goal is to investigate how our microbes contribute to our health. We seek to use diverse technologies like genomics, synthetic biology, and genome engineering to target and manipulate the microbiota for therapeutic purposes.
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
Research Highlight
May 24, 2017
Where do a baby’s first microbes come from and what controls which bugs stick around?
A grant of $225,000 from the Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, Inc., will provide funding to support a postdoctoral fellow at The Jackson Laboratory.
Research Highlight
May 06, 2016
Despite near-constant assaults from bacteria, the microbial community on your hands is remarkably stable.
Oh’s research to date has produced seminal findings on the microbial communities of the human skin.
The Search Magazine Article
April 25, 2017
Julia Oh probes the depths of human skin to characterize the microbial communities that contribute to health and disease.
Research Highlight
January 31, 2017
The possible role of the microbiome — the bacteria, fungi and viruses living on and in us — in cancer is an intriguing area for research.
“Microbial dark matter" undoubtedly contains key information about how our microbiome contributes to human health and disease. But how do you study something you can’t see?