Nicole Place

Nicole received her B.S. from the University of Delaware where she was an undergraduate research assistant in the Wommack lab at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. She studied native CRISPR targets in the human vaginal microbiome and prophage in Bradyrhizobia. 

Nicole then worked as a research assistant in the Mekalanos Lab at Harvard Medical School studying the type VI secretion system regulator A (TsrA) and essential genes using CRISPRi in V. cholerae. She also earned a bioinformatics graduate certificate from the Harvard Extension School. 

Nicole is currently a PhD candidate in the Microbial Pathogenesis department and the Microbial Sciences Institute. She is in the laboratory of Eduardo Groisman and is studying the regulation of gut colonization factors in the human gut bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.