Integrative Microbiome Research Laboratory

Ramaley C351C
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/olm/

Olm Lab Fall 2025

Research Interests

The Integrative Microbiome Research Laboratory studies how the human gut microbiome assembles in early life and how it shapes, and is shaped by, the immune system. We combine strain-resolved metagenomics, immunological methods, and computational tool development to ask how infant microbiomes differ between industrialized and non-industrialized populations, and what those differences mean for allergy, autoimmunity, and other immune-mediated disease. Our lab also develops widely used open-source software for microbial genomics.

Personnel

The Integrative Microbiome Research Laboratory is run by Matthew R Olm, Ph.D.  Current lab members are listed on our People page.

Opportunities to Join the Lab

For up-to-date information on our labs current openings, see our lab's Join Us page. 

Recent Publications

For recent publications visit our website.