Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Thank you so much to Jessica Kay Lang for stopping by to chat about microbiomes, gnotobiotic research, and germ-free mice! I also loved learning about her career and what it's like working in a sterile biological research lab.

Jessica Kay Lang is a Senior Research Specialist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she works in gnotobiotics. The lab’s research focuses on the microbiome, the gastrointestinal immune system. Not only is Jessica Lang responsible for equipment maintenance, staffing, and ordering, but she’s also involved in the research; creating protocols, sustaining gnotobiotic breeding colonies, and performing biological testing. She also makes mice germ free!

Jessica's Links:
To Harvard careers: https://hr.harvard.edu/search-jobs
Garrett Lab Twitter: twitter.com/thegarrettlab?lang=en
My LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessica-kay-lang
Association for Gnotobiotics: gnotobiotics.wildapricot.org

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