Melissa Tran earned her A.B. (2019) in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Biomedical and Biological Sciences at Harvard Medical School. As an undergraduate and lab technician, she worked in Dr. Aleksandar Kostic’s lab studying the ability of gut microbes to stimulate pancreatic development and attenuate diabetes symptoms. She is excited to be co-mentored in the Huh and Devlin labs, where she will study the role of gut bacterial metabolites in influencing host immunology and neurobiology.