Vaibhav Upadhyay, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Medicine
+1 415 476-1528 ext. 2129

I'm a K08 funded physician scientist studying impact of gut microorganisms on human health and applying multi-omic technologies to the study of chronic diseases with clinical focus in pulmonary medicine.

Publications: 

Cell-Type Specificity of Mosaic Chromosome 1q Gain Resolved by snRNA-seq in a Case of Epilepsy With Hyaline Protoplasmic Astrocytopathy.

Neurology. Genetics

Leng K, Cadwell CR, Devine WP, Tihan T, Qi Z, Singhal NS, Glenn OA, Kamiya S, Wiita AP, Berger AC, Shieh JT, Titus EW, Paredes MF, Upadhyay V

Cell type specificity of mosaic chromosome 1q gain resolved by snRNA-seq in a case of epilepsy with hyaline protoplasmic astrocytopathy.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Leng K, Cadwell CR, Devine WP, Tihan T, Qi Z, Singhal N, Glenn O, Kamiya S, Wiita A, Berger A, Shieh JT, Titus EW, Paredes MF, Upadhyay V

Rationale and protocol for a safety, tolerability and feasibility randomized, parallel group, double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study of a novel ketone ester targeting frailty via immunometabolic geroscience mechanisms.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Stubbs BJ, Alvarez-Azanedo G, Peralta S, Roa-Diaz S, Gray W, Alexander L, Silverman-Martin W, Garcia T, Blonquist TM, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh PJ, Johnson JB, Newman JC

Variety of fruit and vegetables and alcohol intake are associated with gut microbial species and gene abundance in colorectal cancer survivors.

The American journal of clinical nutrition

Kyaw TS, Upadhyay V, Tolstykh I, Van Loon K, Laffan A, Stanfield D, Gempis D, Kenfield SA, Chan JM, Piawah S, Atreya CE, Ng K, Venook A, Kidder W, Turnbaugh PJ, Van Blarigan EL

Mild SARS-CoV-2 infection results in long-lasting microbiota instability.

mBio

Upadhyay V, Suryawanshi RK, Tasoff P, McCavitt-Malvido M, Kumar RG, Murray VW, Noecker C, Bisanz JE, Hswen Y, Ha CWY, Sreekumar B, Chen IP, Lynch SV, Ott M, Lee S, Turnbaugh PJ

Mild SARS-CoV-2 infection results in long-lasting microbiota instability.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Upadhyay V, Suryawanshi R, Tasoff P, McCavitt-Malvido M, Kumar GR, Murray VW, Noecker C, Bisanz JE, Hswen Y, Ha C, Sreekumar B, Chen IP, Lynch SV, Ott M, Lee S, Turnbaugh PJ

nicX-ing bad habits with your microbial friends.

Nature metabolism

Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh PJ

Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis.

Cell host & microbe

Alexander M, Ang QY, Nayak RR, Bustion AE, Sandy M, Zhang B, Upadhyay V, Pollard KS, Lynch SV, Turnbaugh PJ

Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist.

Nature medicine

Mirzayi C, Renson A, Genomic Standards Consortium, Massive Analysis and Quality Control Society, Zohra F, Elsafoury S, Geistlinger L, Kasselman LJ, Eckenrode K, van de Wijgert J, Loughman A, Marques FZ, MacIntyre DA, Arumugam M, Azhar R, Beghini F, Bergstrom K, Bhatt A, Bisanz JE, Braun J, Bravo HC, Buck GA, Bushman F, Casero D, Clarke G, Collado MC, Cotter PD, Cryan JF, Demmer RT, Devkota S, Elinav E, Escobar JS, Fettweis J, Finn RD, Fodor AA, Forslund S, Franke A, Furlanello C, Gilbert J, Grice E, Haibe-Kains B, Handley S, Herd P, Holmes S, Jacobs JP, Karstens L, Knight R, Knights D, Koren O, Kwon DS, Langille M, Lindsay B, McGovern D, McHardy AC, McWeeney S, Mueller NT, Nezi L, Olm M, Palm N, Pasolli E, Raes J, Redinbo MR, Rühlemann M, Balfour Sartor R, Schloss PD, Schriml L, Segal E, Shardell M, Sharpton T, Smirnova E, Sokol H, Sonnenburg JL, Srinivasan S, Thingholm LB, Turnbaugh PJ, Upadhyay V, Walls RL, Wilmes P, Yamada T, Zeller G, Zhang M, Zhao N, Zhao L, Bao W, Culhane A, Devanarayan V, Dopazo J, Fan X, Fischer M, Jones W, Kusko R, Mason CE, Mercer TR, Sansone SA, Scherer A, Shi L, Thakkar S, Tong W, Wolfinger R, Hunter C, Segata N, Huttenhower C, Dowd JB, Jones HE, Waldron L

The East Asian gut microbiome is distinct from colocalized white subjects and connected to metabolic health.

eLife

Ang QY, Alba DL, Upadhyay V, Bisanz JE, Cai J, Lee HL, Barajas E, Wei G, Noecker C, Patterson AD, Koliwad SK, Turnbaugh PJ

Investigating Ketone Bodies as Immunometabolic Countermeasures against Respiratory Viral Infections.

Med (New York, N.Y.)

Stubbs BJ, Koutnik AP, Goldberg EL, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh PJ, Verdin E, Newman JC

Ketogenic Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome Resulting in Decreased Intestinal Th17 Cells.

Cell

Ang QY, Alexander M, Newman JC, Tian Y, Cai J, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh JA, Verdin E, Hall KD, Leibel RL, Ravussin E, Rosenbaum M, Patterson AD, Turnbaugh PJ

Meta-Analysis Reveals Reproducible Gut Microbiome Alterations in Response to a High-Fat Diet.

Cell host & microbe

Bisanz JE, Upadhyay V, Turnbaugh JA, Ly K, Turnbaugh PJ

Interprofessional primary care electronic intervention to reduce hypoglycaemic agent use in high-risk veterans with diabetes.

BMJ open quality

Upadhyay V, Walker E, Govea A, Rife T, Jimenez I, Dulay M, Beaman J

Type 3 innate lymphoid cell-derived lymphotoxin prevents microbiota-dependent inflammation.

Cellular & molecular immunology

Zhang Y, Kim TJ, Wroblewska JA, Tesic V, Upadhyay V, Weichselbaum RR, Tumanov AV, Tang H, Guo X, Tang H, Fu YX

Innate lymphoid cells facilitate NK cell development through a lymphotoxin-mediated stromal microenvironment.

The Journal of experimental medicine

Kim TJ, Upadhyay V, Kumar V, Lee KM, Fu YX

Linking the microbiota and metabolic disease with lymphotoxin.

International immunology

Upadhyay V, Fu YX

From infection to colonization: the role of microbiota in transplantation.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Upadhyay V, Fu YX, Bromberg JS

Lymphotoxin regulates commensal responses to enable diet-induced obesity.

Nature immunology

Upadhyay V, Poroyko V, Kim TJ, Devkota S, Fu S, Liu D, Tumanov AV, Koroleva EP, Deng L, Nagler C, Chang EB, Tang H, Fu YX

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UCSF Microbiome Researchers