People

Benjamin H Good, PhD
Alden H. and Winifred Hubbard Brown Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
and (by courtesy) of Biology
Stanford University
S244 Clark Center
bhgood@stanford.edu | 650-497-2575
Curriculum vitae




Aseel Shomar, PhD
SITP Theoretical Biophysics Fellow
Aseel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Good, Huang and Fisher labs. She is broadly interested in adaptation and evolution spanning different biological scales such as the microbiome, cancer progression, and neural networks. She earned her PhD from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where she studied control and learning in biological systems under the guidance of Naama Brenner and Omri Barak.
aseel [at] stanford.edu


Avaneesh Narla, PhD
Stanford Science Fellow
Avaneesh is a Stanford Science Fellow hosted by the Good and Fisher Labs. He is broadly interested in the dynamic adaptation of biological collectives. He is doing this in the context of microbial communities adapting to dynamic resource environments by studying the interplay of ecology and evolution, and in the context of social insects by studying collective behavior and decision-making in response to environmental changes.
avnarla [at] stanford.edu


Jamie A. Lopez, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jamie is a postdoctoral fellow in the Good and Huang Labs. They carried out their PhD with Ned Wingreen and Mohamed Donia at Princeton, where they studied interactions between microbial communities and the chemical environment the microbes inhabit. Jamie’s current research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of bacteriophage in the human gut microbiota.
jamie.alc.lopez [at] stanford.edu


Zhiru Liu
Graduate student in Applied Physics
Zhiru received his B.S. in Engineering Physics and Mathematics & Computer Science from UIUC in 2019. He is currently investigating the population genetics of ongoing bacterial recombination using metagenomic data from the human gut microbiome.
zhiru [at] stanford.edu

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Anastasia Lyulina
Graduate student in Biology
Anastasia is a graduate student in the Good and Petrov labs. She received her B.S. in Physics from Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2017, and worked as research assistant in Fyodor Kondrashov’s Evolutionary Genomics Group from 2017-2020. Anastasia’s current work focuses on the patterns of genetic diversity that arise during selective sweeps.
alyulina [at] stanford.edu

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Olivia Ghosh
Graduate student in Physics
Olivia is a graduate student in the Good and Petrov labs. She received her Bachelors degree in Physics from Columbia University in 2019. Olivia is currently investigating how spatial structure influences the short-term evolution of the gut microbiota.
omghosh [at] stanford.edu

James Ferrare
Graduate student in Biophysics
James received his B.S. in International Development, Mathematics, and Physics and M.S. in Physics from Tulane University in 2018. He is currently investigating how large microbial populations select for mutations that alter their local fitness landscape.
jferrare [at] stanford.edu

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Sophie Walton
Graduate student in Biophysics
Sophie is a graduate student in the Good and Petrov labs. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering with a minor in Information and Data Science from Caltech in 2020. Sophie is currently developing methods for measuring ecological and evolutionary dynamics in longitudinally sampled metagenomes from the rumen microbiome and the human gut.
swalton [at] stanford.edu

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John McEnany
Graduate student in Biophysics
John received his B.A in Physics from Princeton University in 2021. He is currently developing theory for predicting the initial steps of evolution in large, randomly assembled microbial communities.
jmcenany [at] stanford.edu

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Friends of the lab

Katherine Xue, PhD
JSMF Postdoctoral Fellow, Relman and Petrov labs
Katherine is collaborating with the Good lab to investigate within-host evolution and household transmission in the human gut microbiome.
kxue [at] stanford.edu

Alumni

Daniel Wong
Graduate student in Applied Physics, 2019-2024.
Currently a postdoc at Ecole Normale Supérieure

Elise VanLuienen
Undergraduate SSRP Amgen Scholar, Summer 2024.

Serena Debesai
Undergraduate student in Physics, 2021-2023.
Currently a graduate student in the University of Chicago Biophysics PhD Program.

Caroline Van
Undergraduate Bio-X Fellow, Summer 2021

Liana Merk
Undergraduate SURF Fellow, Summer 2020.
Currently a graduate student in the Harvard Biophysics PhD Program.

Layton Rosenfeld
Undergraduate Bio-X Fellow, Summer 2020.