Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Parker Lab
Led by Ivana Parker · Biomedical Engineering
What we study
The Parker Lab studies how microbes interact with host cells to increase HIV risk, using multi-omics, systems biology, and computational approaches. They focus on improving HIV prevention and understanding inflammation in TB, cancer, and women's health.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Clinical
- Bacteria & microbes
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 3
Current projects
Precision Medicine for Global Health
Improving HIV prevention strategies in communities with high risk.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- MPOInt: An Epigenetics-Driven Workflow for Integrative Multi-Level Proteomics
2026 · Journal of Proteome Research
Develops a tool to combine different types of protein data for analysis.
- Machine learning and Voronoi-based decision boundaries for Bacterial vaginosis to determine population- specific microbial interactions
2026 · PLoS Computational Biology
Uses machine learning to predict bacterial interactions in bacterial vaginosis.
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- Microbiome Composition Regulates Cathepsin Expression in Vaginal Fluid Across BV Diagnoses and Community State Types
2026 · Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Measures enzyme activity in vaginal fluid to see if it differs by diagnosis.
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