People
Jacques Ravel, PhD
Principal Investigator
MSc - Microbiology - University of Nancy, France, 1992
PhD - Molecular Microbial Ecology - University of Maryland College Park, 1994-1999
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Product Chemistry - The Johns Hopkins University, 1999-2002
Editor in Chief, Microbiome
Research Associates
Bing Ma, PhD
MSc - Molecular Systematics - University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2005
PhD - Computer Genomics - University of Wisconsin, 2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2011-2014
Pawel Gajer, PhD
MSc - Mathematics - Institute of Mathematics, Wroclaw Univ., Poland, 1985
PhD - Mathematics - State University of New York, 1993
Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of California Berkeley, 1993-1994
MSc - Computer Sciences - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000
Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000-2002 
Postdoctoral Fellows
Vonetta Edwards, PhD
PhD - Pathogenicity - University of Maryland College Park 2013
Johanna Holm, PhD
PhD - Microbial Ecology - University of Southern California, 2015
CLINICAL STAFF
Melissa Nandy, NP, CCRC, CPM
Clinical Research Specialist
Master in Family Nursing Practice - University of Maryland School of Nursing, 2015
BIOINFORMATICS STAFF
Apaala Chatterjee, MS
Bioinformatics Specialist
Master in Bioinformatics - Johns Hopkins University, 2015
Graduate Students
Latéy Bradford
MD/PhD program, University of Maryland School of Medicine
PhD Graduate Student, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore
BSc - University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2009
Steve Smith
PhD Graduate Student - Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG), University of Maryland College Park
MSc - University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Laboratory Staff
Mike Humphrys, MSc
Research Laboratory Manager
MSc - Biological Oceanography - University of Georgia, 2008
Lindsay Sammons Rutt, MSc
Research Laboratory Supervisor
MSc - Clinical Microbiology - University of Wisconsin, 2010
Li Fu, BSc
Research Specialist
BSc - Jiangsu University, 1985
Hongqiu Yang
Research Assistant
Eli McComb
Research Assistant
BSc - American University, 2014
Bilal Ali
Research Assistant
BSc - University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2015
Administrative Support
Riham Keryakos
Office Manager
UMB Staff Senator
BA - English Literature - Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1985-1989
RAVEL LAB ALUMNI
Florian Fricke, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2011
Professor of Nutrigenomics, Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Mark Eppinger, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2012
Assistant Professor, University of Texas San Antonio, Department of Biology
Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences
Joyce Sakamoto, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2011
Research Associate, Penn State University, Department of Entomology
Guoyun Bai, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-20012
Principal Scientist, Pzifer Inc., Groton, CT.
Bing Ma, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2014
Research Associate, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences
Elisabeth Neuendorf - Graduate Student, 2011-2015
Senior Research Biologist, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA