Luis Alberto Chica

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Scott A. Handley, PhD

Undergraduate university: Universidad de los Andes, 2020

Enrollment year: 2023

Research summary
I investigate how bacteriophages in the vaginal microbiome drive community instability and HIV acquisition risk through prophage-mediated bacterial lysis, inflammatory activation, and immune dysregulation using metagenomics and mechanistic validation.

Graduate publications