Lynn Bry is a physician, anaerobic microbiologist, and microbial geneticist at Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
She has created multiple multi-institutional platforms to support scientific, clinical and educational activities, including the MadSci Network, Crimson prospective collection resource, Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, and Partners Healthcare-wide Pathogen Genomic Surveillance Program.
She has authored or co-authored >70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including original papers in Science detailing a molecular model of host-microbial cross-talk in the small intestine, and in Nature Medicine demonstrate therapeutic use of defined commensal microbes to reverse food allergies.
While at Washington University, Bry founded and became Executive Director of The Madsci Network, an Ask-A-Scientist service based on the World Wide Web.
[1] The service involves more than 900 globally situated volunteer scientists who field questions from the general public and from students in kindergarten through the 12th grade.