About

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Microbiology at The Ohio State University. I graduated from Missouri Valley College with a B.S in Biological Sciences and minors in Chemistry and Forensic Science. I joined the Sullivan Lab in March 2021 and I investigate the vaginal microbiome and virome of pregnant people living with HIV and how specific taxa modulate low-birthweight and subsequent mortality of their HIV-exposed uninfected infants.

Publications

Sub-daily virus sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series reveals diel and depth-structured population dynamics without community-level shifts

Alfonso Carrillo, Emily Hageman, Lauren Chittick, Anna I. Mackey, Kimberley S. Ndlovu, Funing Tian, Naomi E. Gilbert, Daniel Muratore, Dean Vik, Gary R. LeCleir, Christine Sun, Ho B. Jang, Ricardo R. Pavan, Joshua S. Weitz, Steven W. Wilhelm, Matthew B. Sullivan

PLOS Biology, vol. 24(3), 2026, pp. 1-25

The vaginal microbiome of pregnant people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a pilot study and global meta-analysisUntitled

Kimberley S. Ndlovu, Ricardo R. Pavan, Jacqueline Corry, Ann C. Gregory, Samia Mahamed, Natalia Zotova, Martine Tabala, Pelagie Babakazo, Nicholas T. Funderburg, Marcel Yotebieng, Nichole R. Klatt, Jesse J. Kwiek, Matthew B. Sullivan

mSphere, vol. 11(2), 2026, pp. e00597-25

Seasonal enhancement of the viral shunt catalyzes a subsurface oxygen maximum in the Sargasso Sea

Naomi E. Gilbert, Daniel Muratore, Camelia Shopen Gochev, Gary R. LeCleir, Shelby M. Cagle, Helena L. Pound, Christine L. Sun, Alfonso Carrillo, Kimberley S. Ndlovu, Ilia Maidanik, Ashley R. Coenen, Lauren Chittick, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, Alison Buchan, Debbie Lindell, Matthew B. Sullivan, Joshua S. Weitz, Steven W. Wilhelm

Nature Communications, vol. 17(1), 2025, p. 352

Microbial Analysis of Rhizosphere and Non-Rhizosphere Bacteria of Lindera benzoin & Lithospermum canescens

Kimberley Ndlovu

Aletheia, vol. 6(1), 2021

The vaginal microbiome of women living with HIV-1 in DR Congo

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Paper of the month

This section will be a summary of some of my favourite papers I read each month.

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