Katya Moniz

Katya Moniz oversees CMIT operations and programmatic activities. She has been working at the intersection of microbes and human health since 2016. As Research Lead in the Alm Laboratory at MIT, she oversaw major projects and multi-institutional collaborations, with a primary focus on wastewater-based disease tracking and the gut microbiomes of underrepresented populations. More recently, she served as the director of the Global Microbiome Conservancy program at OpenBiome, the non-profit stool bank. Dr. Moniz serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations in Hawaii, and on the advisory board of the Global Microbiome Conservancy initiative.

kmoniz@mit.edu