Nichole is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to arriving at Hopkins in July 2020, Nichole was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Institute for Systems Genomics at the University of Connecticut. From 2013-2015, Nichole was an Associate Research Scientist at the Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Department at Yale University. Nichole received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Ken Raffa (Entomology) and Jo Handelsman (Microbiology) and did her postdoctoral research in the lab of Bruno Lemaitre at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research has focused on characterization of the gut microbiota of insect hosts and study of their impacts on host physiology and susceptibility to disease.

Sneha earned her B.S. in Microbial Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021 where she studied the role of gut microbes in detoxifying the diets of herbivorous insects. She joined the lab in 2022 and is investigating the effects of the Drosophila melanogaster microbiome and immune response on pathogen evolution. She is also examining pH mediated interactions between diet, the microbiome, and pathogens.

Harjit earned her B.S in Biology from Rutgers University-Camden where she studied Circadian Clock and Photoperiodism in Drosophila melanogaster. She joined the Broderick Lab in spring of 2022. Harjit is interested in exploring how seasonality effects microbe-microbe interactions in D.melanogaster.

Clayton received a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in 2021, and an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Drexel University in 2023. He joined the lab in 2026 and is studying how the insect pathogen Chromobacterium subtsugae interacts with gut bacteria in Drosophila melanogaster.

Taylar earned her B.S in Molecular Genetics from the University of Rochester in 2019 where she studied the effects of selfish gene elements on D. melanogaster. She joined the Broderick lab in the Spring of 2020. Taylar is interested in studying the interplay between diet and the gut microbiome, and how this relationship could impact oogenesis and embryonic development.

Colina earned her B.S. in Biology and Neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2022. Then, she earned her ScM in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2024, where she studied how epigenetic context affects genome maintenance pathways. She is now interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and pathogenic virulence using Drosophila Melanogaster infection models and genomic analysis

Benji earned his B.S in Biotechnology from Cal Poly Pomona in 2019 where he studied how garlic modifies the host immune response. He joined the Broderick lab in the Spring of 2020. Benji is interested in identifying host molecular mechanisms that are modulated by the microbiome to alter melanization.