UC Berkeley funded undergraduate research
Carlotta mentors students through URAP, SURF L&S, and the Rose Hills Summer Scholarship. Through URAP, she nominated a student for a paid summer research stipend.
Ronda Lab · Community
Community Impact & Engagement
Student research, public talks, and food allergy collaborations.
Mentorship
Student research and mentorship
CHORI Summer Student Research Program
Hosts students through the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland program, which expands access to biomedical research for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Emerson Collective FirstGen internship
Through Emerson Collective’s FirstGen Internship Program, the lab welcomes first-generation college students into research. In summer 2025, Emily Sidharta worked with Carlotta to study interactions between human cells and the microbiome.
Read the IGI storyUndergraduate mentorship and journal club
The lab offers research mentorship and journal club discussions for UC Berkeley undergraduates and visiting or exchange students, including those from Minerva University and the University of Barcelona.
Public science
Talks, interviews, and public events
Carlotta shares microbiome research with students and wider audiences through talks, interviews, and public events.
School outreach · Fremont, CA
American High School speaker series
Carlotta spoke with students in the Engineering & Technology Club at American High School in Fremont about microbiome research.
Community health
Food allergy research and outreach
Engineering beneficial gut bacteria for food tolerance
An active Food Allergy Fund collaboration between the Ronda Lab and Chrysothemis Brown Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering is identifying signals from beneficial gut microbes that guide Thetis cells toward food tolerance, then testing engineered microbial delivery in preclinical models.
View the FAF projectFood Allergy Fund Leadership Forum
Invited speaker at the November 2025 Leadership Forum in Washington, DC.
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NIAID / Food Allergy Fund workshop
Participated in a 2026 workshop on the role of the microbiome in food allergy.
Fellowships
Fellowships across the lab
Research and professional-development fellowships awarded to members of the lab.
Kylie Huang
Molecular and Cell Biology, Business AdministrationSURF project “Engineering Programmable Bacterial Factories for In Situ eCIS Delivery”
Nandika Nambiar
Molecular and Cell BiologySURF project “CRISPR-Based Targeting of F. Nucleatum Against Colorectal Cancer”
Andrew Nguyen
Project “Mapping microbiome-driven GPCR activation patterns in inflammation”
Brayon Fremin
Postdoctoral researcher