Michael Wasney

I am a computational biologist studying how the bacteria in our guts evolve. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in the Garud Lab at UCLA.

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First Author

Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut [Nature Communications, 2026]
Michael Wasney*, Leah Briscoe*, Richard Wolff, Hans Ghezzi, Carolina Tropini, Nandita Garud

Contributing Author

Select microbial metabolites promote tau aggregation in a murine tauopathy model [Nature Communications, 2026]
Sabeen A. Kazmi, Franciscus Chandra, Michael Wasney, Jenny Cheng, Gregory R. Lum, Malvika Iyer, Daria Di Blasi, Adriana N. Espinoza, Arlene Lopez-Romero, Xia Yang, Nandita Garud & Elaine Y. Hsiao

Single-cell genomics improves the discovery of risk variants and genes of atrial fibrillation [Nature Communications, 2023]
Alan Selewa, Kaixuan Luo, Michael Wasney, Linsin Smith, Xiaotong Sun, Chenwei Tang, Heather Eckart, Ivan P. Moskowitz, Anindita Basu, Xin He & Sebastian Pott

* Denotes equal contribution.

Brief CV

Current: PhD Genetics & Genomics, UCLA, 2021-present

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