Meet the Team.

Shirlee Wohl

Principal Investigator

Shirlee recently joined Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an Investigator in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She is also the Project Director for the New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence in the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her work focuses on integrating pathogen sequencing data with epidemiological information to track the spread of infectious diseases, and on building pathogen genomics capacity in public health settings both domestically and internationally.

Shirlee received her PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Nate Matteson

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nate is a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab, having completed his PhD in Chemical and Biological Sciences at Scripps Research with Kristian Andersen in 2023. His dissertation work focused on quantifying the effect that international and domestic travel restrictions had on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and determining the environmental factors that enabled intermittent outbreaks of West Nile virus. His research utilizes genomic surveillance and multimodal data source to gain insights into the emergence, spread, and diversity of infectious disease outbreaks. In the Wohl lab, he is interested in investigating the roles that human behavior, pathogen biology, and public health interventions play in bacterial outbreaks and in developing tools that enable others to answer similar questions.