Elisa Cappio Barazzone has been a PhD student in Prof Emma Wetter Slack’s group in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at ETH Zurich since October 2020. She obtained a BSc in biological sciences from the University of Turin, Italy, and an MSc in molecular biosciences from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in Germany. During her undergraduate studies, she investigated the innate immunity of the intestinal epithelium. Her focus within this BRCCH project is characterizing the microbiota in mouse models and understanding disease pathogenesis.