Jose C. Clemente, Ph.D.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | Google Scholar

Jose is a computational biologist. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received is B.Sc. from University of Seville (Spain), and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan). He did his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Genetics (Japan) and at the University of Colorado. His lab develops computational and experimental methods to understand the microbiome and its relation to immune and metabolic disorders. He is a rabid Emacs user.

Alba Boix, Ph.D.

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Alba is a postdoc in the Clemente Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), where she studied the human milk microbiome in health and during lactational mastitis. Her work is currently focused on the study of the human microbiome in different settings, including the maternal transfer of bacteria to the infant at delivery and the protective role of a healthy microbiome against disease. In her free time, she enjoys exploring NYC, traveling, reading, trying new restaurants and cooking her mom’s recipes.

Hilary Monaco, Ph.D.

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Hilary is a postdoc in the Clemente Lab. She received her PhD from the Tri-Institute Program in Computational Biology and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University where she applied experimental and computational methods to study the spatial-temporal dynamics of cooperation in microbial communities. She has an S.B. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT. Hilary’s work in the Clemente lab is focused on longitudinal analysis of the microbiome. In her spare time, Hilary enjoys practicing taekwondo and figuring out new ways to bring more women into STEM fields.

Kevin Bu, Ph.D.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Kevin earned his MD/PhD degree at Mount Sinai for Class of 2023. He was born and raised in Wellesley, MA and obtained his B.A. studying chemistry and applied math at Harvard ’15. In the Clemente Lab, Kevin develops methods for identifying false positive and false negative correlations and applying these tools to real-world settings (such as the microbiome). Outside of lab, Kevin enjoys singing, piano, running, frisbee, and is always excited to learn something new. He is now a postdoctoral fellow for the Clemente Lab.

Jakleen Lee

MD/PhD STUDENT

Jakleen is an MD/PhD student who is currently doing her pre-clinical coursework in the medical school and will begin her thesis work in the Clemente Lab in 2021. She obtained a Bachelor’s in Microbiology from UCLA in 2017 and a Master’s in Biomedical Science from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2019. Her research experiences have focused on the role of sex, metabolism, and innate immunity in differential disease susceptibility. In the Clemente Lab, she is applying these experiences to the study of the microbiome in psychiatric disease. Outside the lab, Jakleen enjoys running, binging podcasts, and going to concerts.

Adam Cantor

BIOINFORMATICIAN

Adam is a bioinformatician in the lab. He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 2021 with a B.A. in Computer Science and Music. His duties in the lab include maintaining and upgrading the 16S analysis suite "MMEDS" and running analyses on the same. Outside the lab, he enjoys chess, singing, and solving puzzles.

Erli Wind-Andersen

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Erli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Clemente Lab. Erli received his Ph.D. from New Jersey·
Institute of Technology in Applied Mathematics where he focused on efficiently solving time-domain scattering in two dimensions. He has a B.Sc in Applied Mathematics from Fordham University and an M.S. in Mathematics from Courant Institute at NYU. Within the lab, his research is focused on applying and developing computational methods in the analysis of microbiome data. He always has a fountain pen in his pocket.

Elisa Sambataro

VOLUNTEER

Elisa is a volunteer in the Clemente Lab. She moved to New York from Milan, Italy in 2013, and is currently a student at CUNY Hunter College. Elisa is interested in biology and medicine, and hopes to major in biology with a pre-med track for her undergraduate studies. In the Clemente lab, she is working on analyzing data for the ACTIVATE project, a clinical trial that investigates whether food allergy risk can be lowered by transferring vaginal microbes to infants delivered by C-section. In her free time, Elisa enjoys baking with her family (especially Tiramisù), playing soccer, and reading novels of all genres.

Maria Shabashkevich

MS STUDENT

Niccole Diaz

MS STUDENT