Lab News

Our latest recruit, Dr. Jasmine Labuda joins the Harrison lab as a post-doctoral fellow, having successfully defended her thesis work at the University of California, Davis! We’re really excited to have you in Seattle, BRI and the lab!

The Harrison Lab welcomes its first graduate student, Tayla Olsen! Tayla, joins the lab as a graduate student on the Seattle MCB program. Welcome, we’re looking forward to the fun science to come!

Dr. Oliver Harrison at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) has been awarded the Grand Prize in the inaugural NOSTER Science Microbiome competition. The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize has been established to reward innovative research by young investigators working on the functional attributes of the microbiota of any organism that has potential to contribute to our understanding of human or veterinary health and disease or to guide therapeutic interventions.

Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) has launched a new Gut Immunity Research Program with the support of a $3 million donation from a private donor. Leading the endeavor are researchers Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD, James Lord, MD, PhD, and Oliver Harrison, DPhil, a new principal investigator at BRI.