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.
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
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Research HighlightFebruary 08, 2023Identifying the functional mechanisms of ME/CFS
Derya Unutmaz and Julia Oh are helping to remove the obstacles for diagnosing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). -
Blog PostApril 26, 2021Using the power of sequencing on our smallest organisms
The microbiome plays a vital role in our health and wellbeing. Now researchers are using sequencing technology to better understand it. -
Research HighlightMay 19, 2020Finding 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, 2019The microbiome and the nursing home
JAX, UConn researchers explore how patients’ microbiome, and risk of infection, change after time in a skilled nursing facility.
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Research HighlightOctober 19, 2022Aging and our microbiomes
Julia Oh and her team collaborated with the UConn Center on Aging to study the microbiome of the skin, oral, and gut in the context of aging. -
Research HighlightJanuary 25, 2021Investigating 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. -
Research HighlightJanuary 30, 2020Taking 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. -
Search MagazineJuly 11, 2019Q&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.