Matthew R.Olm

  • Assistant Professor
  • INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Address

Office:
Ramaley Biology Room C351

Address:
Matthew Olm
91Ҹ 91Ҹ
Department of Integrative Physiology
1800 Colorado Avenue
Ramaley Building, room C351, 354 UCB
91Ҹ, CO 80309-0354

91Ҹ Interests

Education

  • 2014-2019, Ph.D., The University of California, Berkeley
  • 2010-2014, B.S., The University of Pittsburgh

Professional Experience

  • 2024-, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, 91Ҹ 91Ҹ, 91Ҹ, CO
  • 2020-2024, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  • 2019-2020, Interim Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of California, Berkeley

Honors and Awards

  • 2025 CU 91Ҹ Undergraduate 91Ҹ Opportunities Program (UROP) Mentor Award
  • 2021-2024, Ruth S. Kirschstein F32 National 91Ҹ Service Award
  • 2020-2021, T32 NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship
  • 2021, 91Ҹ article highlighted as one of “5 Top Cited Papers” of mSystems
  • 2019, Keystone National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Travel Scholarship
  • 2017, 91Ҹ article selected as Cover Image of Genome 91Ҹ
  • 2017, 91Ҹ article selected as “Editor’s Pick” of mBio
  • 2014-2019, National Science Foundation Graduate 91Ҹ Fellowship

Select Publications

For a complete list of publications .

  • Carter, M.M.*, Olm, M.R.*, Merrill, B.D.*, Dahan, D., Tripathi, S., Spencer, S.P., Yu, F.B., Jain, S., Neff, N., Jha, A.R., Sonnenburg, E.D., Sonnenburg, J.L., (2023). Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes. Cell 186, 3111-3124.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.046
  • Olm M. R.*, Dahan, D.*, Carter M. M., Merrill B. D., Yu F. B., Jain S., Meng X., Tripathi S., Wastyk H., Neff N., Holmes S., Sonnenburg E. D., Jha A. R., Sonnenburg J. L. (2022). Robust variation in infant gut microbiome assembly across a spectrum of lifestyles. Science, 376, 1220–1223. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj2972
  • Olm, M. R., Crits-Christoph, A., Bouma-Gregson, K., Firek, B. A., Morowitz, M. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2021). inStrain profiles population microdiversity from metagenomic data and sensitively detects shared microbial strains. Nature Biotechnology, 39(6), 727–736. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00797-0
  • Crits-Christoph, A., Kantor, R. S., Olm, M. R., Whitney, O. N., Al-Shayeb, B., Lou, Y. C., Flamholz, A., Kennedy, L. C., Greenwald, H., Hinkle, A., Hetzel, J., Spitzer, S., Koble, J., Tan, A., Hyde, F., Schroth, G., Kuersten, S., Banfield, J. F., & Nelson, K. L. (2021). Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants. MBio, 12(1), e02703-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02703-20
  • Olm, M. R., Bhattacharya, N., Crits-Christoph, A., Firek, B. A., Baker, R., Song, Y. S., Morowitz, M. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2019). Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella, and fimbriae-encoding bacteria. Science Advances, 5(12), eaax5727. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax5727
  • Olm, M. R.*, West, P. T.*, Brooks, B., Firek, B. A., Baker, R., Morowitz, M. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2019). Genome-resolved metagenomics of eukaryotic populations during early colonization of premature infants and in hospital rooms. Microbiome, 7(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0638-1
  • Rahman, S. F., Olm, M. R., Morowitz, M. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2018). Machine Learning Leveraging Genomes from Metagenomes Identifies Influential Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Infant Gut Microbiome. mSystems, 3(1), e00123-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00123-17
  • Brooks, B., Olm, M. R., Firek, B. A., Baker, R., Thomas, B. C., Morowitz, M. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2017). Strain-resolved analysis of hospital rooms and infants reveals overlap between the human and room microbiome. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1814. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02018-w
  • Olm, M. R., Brown, C. T., Brooks, B., Firek, B., Baker, R., Burstein, D., Soenjoyo, K., Thomas, B. C., Morowitz, M., & Banfield, J. F. (2017). Identical bacterial populations colonize premature infant gut, skin, and oral microbiomes and exhibit different in situ growth rates. Genome 91Ҹ, 27(4), 601–612. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.213256.116

* Denotes authors contributed equally to this work