Laurie Elizabeth Comstock PhD

Laurie Comstock is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School with a primary appointment in Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She obtained a Ph.D. from Wake Forest University Medical Center studying Borrelia burgdorferi. She performed her post-doctoral work at the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland Medical Center studying Vibrio cholerae. With a background in bacterial pathogenesis and genetics, she began a new research direction more than 20 years ago studying the Bacteroidales, the most abundant order of human gut bacteria. Her lab has made fundamental discoveries regarding the biology of these important gut bacteria. Her lab is currently engaged in studying the ecology of the mammalian gut microbiota, specifically studying how abundant bacterial members of this ecosystem compete with each other.