Dr. Guillaume Urtecho is a Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Dr. Harris Wang. His current work uses fecal transplantation models to learn how microbes colonize ecosystems and how we can leverage these ecological mechanisms to engineer the human microbiome. He aspires to lead a diverse academic research group dedicated to developing high-throughput platforms to rapidly prototype personalized microbial therapeutics for gastrointestinal diseases.
Guillaume is a native of the California Central Valley. He received his B.S. in Genetics from UC Davis and PhD in Molecular Biology from UCLA under the mentorship of Dr. Sriram Kosuri. In his PhD work, he developed a design-build-test-learn pipeline using high-throughput testing and machine learning to explore how bacterial promoters are encoded in DNA sequences. Beyond research, Guillaume is committed to advancing DEI and equal representation in STEM through mentoring trainees and community science education.