Chloe Mirzayi

Research

Microbiome epidemiology & reporting standards

STORMS checklist

Lead author of the Strengthening The Organization and Reporting of Microbiome Studies guideline, a 17-item checklist developed by a consortium of 101 authors from 89 institutions in 17 countries. Published in Nature Medicine (2021).

BugSigDB

Second author of BugSigDB, a community-editable database of manually curated microbial signatures from published differential abundance studies, built with dozens of student curators whom I helped mentor. Published in Nature Biotechnology.

STREAMS guidelines

Second author on the extension of STORMS to environmental and non-human host-associated microbiome studies. Published in Nature Microbiology (2025).

Antibiotics & the gut microbiome

My dissertation used causal and predictive modeling to study how antibiotic exposure affects the gut microbiome, including whether pre-exposure microbiome composition modifies antibiotic effects in infants.

HIV prevention & population health cohorts

Together 5000

A U.S. national, technology-mediated cohort studying HIV incidence and PrEP uptake among sexual and gender minority people. I have co-authored work on its recruitment, retention, PrEP use, and HIV seroconversion.

AMETHST

The American Transformative HIV Study (2022–present), a national cohort of sexual and gender minority people, including those living with HIV.

CHASING COVID

A national, community-based prospective cohort of U.S. adults tracking SARS-CoV-2 incidence, testing preferences, and the pandemic's social and mental health effects.

Teaching & workshops