Life Sciences Seminar: External Speaker, Dr. Jiahe Li, “Understanding and Harness Microbes for Solving Complex Problems in Biology and Medicine”

Jiahe Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Hosted by: Assistant Professor Natalie Farny

Tuesday, March 25, 12:00 pm

Gateway 1002 ~ Pizza will be served

Abstract: 

The microbiome represents an exciting frontier in medicine, and early successes in the field have demonstrated the dynamic interactions among individual microbial species and highlighted the crosstalk between microbiota and their hosts at the mucosal interface.  In this talk, I will present our work in interrogating and manipulating commensal bacteria and probiotics as therapeutic platforms to promote human health.

Bio: 

Dr. Jiahe Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The Li research group focuses on the development of molecular and live cell-based therapeutics, with a major emphasis on the use of bioconjugation chemistry, synthetic biology, and microbiology to interrogate and manipulate interactions between therapeutics, the microbiome, and host. I was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University from 2019 to 2023 and relocated my lab to the University of Michigan in the summer of 2023.