Lawrence David, Ph.D.

Lawrence David is an Assistant Professor in GCB and the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology. Lawrence began his research career as an undergraduate at Columbia University, where he studied biological network inference with Chris Wiggins. During his Ph.D. in Computational & Systems Biology at MIT, Lawrence worked with Eric Alm to reconstruct ancient microbial genomes and incorporate ecological adaptation into models of microbial genome evolution. Lawrence performed postdoctoral work as a Junior Fellow and Principal Investigator at Harvard's Society of Fellows, where he collaborated with Peter Turnbaugh on analyses of the human microbiome's response to diet- and disease-based perturbations.