Hua Nie is a PhD student in the Centre for Host–Microbiome Interactions, supervised by Professor Luigi Nibali, Professor Adil Mardinoglu and Dr Jing Kang. Her research broadly focuses on the relationships between periodontal disease, the microbiome, and systemic health. She works with multi-omics clinical datasets and computational approaches to explore oral–host–microbial interactions and their relevance to disease mechanisms.