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Jakob Young

Rachel Wood Lab Members (Current Undergraduate Students)

I am studying Bioinformatics with a goal of going to medical school. I am fascinated by the world of microbes. I'm currently working on a project using machine learning to identify functional microbial relationships in the human gut that predict metabolic disease. I have previously studied the dynamic microbial communities responsible for toxic cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater and those that synthesize biofuel in hyperthermophilic anaerobic reactors.