#  Soumya Kannan 

 

 



   ![A professional headshot of Junior Fellow Soumya Kannan](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-10/Kannan.jpg?h=296d5389&itok=vLpTfFKY) 

 



 

 email <skannan@fas.harvard.edu> 

Molecular Biology

B.S. California Institute of Technology

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Photo courtesy of Mark James Dunn

 

 



 

I completed my bachelor's degree at Caltech in bioengineering in 2016 and was subsequently a Fulbright scholar at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine. In 2023, I obtained my PhD in biological engineering from MIT, where I studied the origins of CRISPR-Cas systems from mobile elements, biochemical diversity in CRISPR-Cas systems, and applications of RNA-guided systems for genome and transcriptome editing in Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Erin Chen's lab at the Broad Institute, where I study host-microbiome protein-protein interactions.



 

 

 





 

 

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