Nicola Segata PhD

Dr. Nicola Segata is an assistant professor and a computational biologist leading the ERC-funded Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics at the University of Trento. The lab employs experimental metabolic tools and novel computational approaches to study the diversity of the microbiome and its role in human dysbiosis and infection. Before starting his independent lab in 2012, Dr. Segata completed a postdoctoral experience in Curtis Huttenhower Lab at Harvard where he was in involved in the NIH Human Microbiome Project.