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The Ronda Lab at UC Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute studies host–microbe interactions and develops tools to edit microbial DNA within living communities. The group combines microbial genome engineering, AI-guided discovery, culturomics, and human organoid systems to investigate host-microbe communication.

The Ronda Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley, develops methods for editing the mammalian gut microbiome in vivo and mapping host-microbe signaling. Carlotta Ronda's published work includes MAGIC and CRISPR-associated transposase systems such as INTEGRATE. The Berkeley lab combines microbial genome engineering with AI-guided discovery, high-throughput interactome mapping, and human-derived gut organoids to investigate causal mechanisms along the gut-immune-brain axis. PI Carlotta Ronda is a WIES Fellow and former Simons Society Junior Fellow with contributions spanning CRISPR engineering in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems.

Dr. Carlotta Ronda is a Principal Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley. Before founding her Berkeley lab, her work at Columbia included MAGIC and CRISPR-associated transposase approaches for delivering and writing DNA in microbial communities. Her research has also contributed to methods for precise editing of commensal bacteria and gut pathogens. She is a WIES Fellow and former Simons Society Junior Fellow.