Research Publications

2022

Dental caries as a risk factor for bacterial blood stream infection (BSI) in children undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)

Dawud Abduweli Uyghurturk​, Ying Lu​, Janelle Urata, Christopher C. Dvorak, and Pamela Den Besten. Peerj, 2022

 

A novel in silico method employs chemical and protein similarity algorithms to accurately identify chemical transformations in the human gut microbiome

Annamarie Bustion, Ayushi Agrawal, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Katherine S. Pollard. bioRxiv, 2022

 

Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis

Margaret Alexander, Qi Yan Ang, Renuka R. Nayak, Annamarie E. Bustion, Moriah Sandy, Bing Zhang, Vaibhav Upadhyay, Katherine S. Pollard, Susan V. Lynch, Peter J. Turnbaugh. Cell, 2022

 

FLG Deficiency in Mice Alters the Early-Life CD4+ T-Cell Response to Skin Commensal Bacteria

Jeanmarie R. Gonzalez, Anna Celli, Antonin Weckel, Miqdad O. Dhariwala, Geil R. Merana, Oluwasunmisola T. Ojewumi, Joy Okoro, Laura R. Dwyer, Victoria M. Tran, Jason M. Meyer, Theodora M. Mauro, Tiffany C. ScharschmidtJournal of Investigative Dermatology, 2022

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Topical Glaucoma Therapy Is Associated With Alterations of the Ocular Surface Microbiome

Chih-Chiun J. Chang, Karina Somohano, Christine Zemsky, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann,
Jeffrey Liebmann, George A. Cioffi, Lama A. Al-Aswad, Susan V. Lynch, and
Bryan J. Winn. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2022


Microcosm cultures of a complex synthetic community reveal ecology and genetics of gut microbial organization

Xiaofan Jin,  Feiqiao B. Yu, Jia Yan, Allison Weakley, and Katherine S. Pollard. bioRxiv, 2022

 

Topical Glaucoma Therapy Is Associated With Alterations of the Ocular Surface Microbiome

Chih-Chiun J. Chang; Karina Somohano; Christine Zemsky; Anne-Catrin Uhlemann; Jeffrey Liebmann; George A. Cioffi; Lama A. Al-Aswad; Susan V. Lynch and Bryan J. Winn. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2022

 

The best offense is a good beta-defensin

Miqdad O. Dhariwala, and Tiffany C . Scharschmidt. Immunity, 2022


 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666379122002567?via%3DihubHeritable vaginal bacteria influence immune tolerance and relate to early-life markers of allergic sensitization in infancy

Kathryn E. McCauley, Elze Rackaityte, Brandon LaMere, Douglas W. Fadrosh, Kei E. Fujimura, Ariane R. Panzer, Din L. Lin, Kole V. Lynch, Joanna Halkias, Ventura F. Mendoza, Trevor D. Burt, Casper Bendixsen, Kathrine Barnes, Haejin Kim, Kyra Jones, Dennis R. Ownby, Christine C. Johnson, Christine M. Seroogy, James E. Gern 8, Homer A. Boushey, and Susan V. Lynch. Cell Reports Medicine, 2022

Host and gut bacteria share metabolic pathways for anti-cancer drug metabolism

Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Than S. Kyaw, Ben G. H. Guthrie, Patrick H. Bradley, Joyce V. Lee, Jonathan Melamed, Ysabella Noelle Amora Malig, Kathy N. Lam, Daryll Gempis, Moriah Sandy, Wesley Kidder, Erin L. Van Blarigan, Chloe E. Atreya, Alan Venook, Roy R. Gerona, Andrei Goga, Katherine S. Pollard & Peter J. TurnbaughNature Microbiology, 2022

 

Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course

Xiaoyuan Zhou, Ryan Baumann, Xiaohui Gao, Myra Mendoza, Sneha Singh, Ilana Katz Sand, Zongqi Xia, Laura M. Cox, Tanuja Chitnis, Hongsup Yoon, Laura Moles, Stacy J. Caillier, Adam Santaniello, Gail Ackermann, Adil Harroud, Robin Lincoln, Refujia Gomez, Antonio González Peña, Elise Digga, Daniel Joseph Hakim, Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza, Karthik Soman, Shannon Warto, Greg Humphrey, Mauricio Farez, Lisa Ann Gerdes, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Scott S. Zamvil, Siddharthan Chandran, Peter Connick, David Otaegui, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Stephen L. Hauser, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Howard L. Weiner, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hartmut Wekerle, Jennifer Graves, Amit Bar-Or, Bruce A.C. Cree, Jorge Correale, Rob Knight, Sergio E. Baranzini. Cell, 2022

Sustained effect of LACTIN-V (Lactobacillus crispatus CTV-05) on genital immunology following standard bacterial vaginosis treatment: results from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Eric Armstrong, Anke Hemmerling, Steve Miller, Kerianne E Burke, Sara J Newmann, Sheldon R Morris, Hilary Reno, Sanja Huibner, Maria Kulikova,
Nico Nagelkerke, Bryan Coburn, Craig R Cohen, Rupert Kaul. The Lancet Microbe, 2022

 A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation

 Mustafa O¨ zcam, Jee-Hwan Oh, Restituto Tocmo, Tim S. Bugni, Jens Walter, Jan-Peter van Pijkeren.
O¨ zc¸ am et al., 2022, Cell Host & Microbe 2022

 

Strain-resolved analysis in a randomized trial of antibiotic pretreatment and maintenance dose delivery mode with fecal microbiota transplant for ulcerative colitis

Byron J. Smith, Yvette Piceno, Martin Zydek, Bing Zhang Lara Aboud Syriani, Jonathan P. Terdiman, Zain Kassam, Averil Ma, Susan V. Lynch, Katherine S. Pollard, and Najwa El‑Nache. Scientific Reports 2022

 

Sustained effect of LACTIN-V (Lactobacillus crispatus CTV-05) on genital immunology following standard bacterial vaginosis treatment: results from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Eric Armstrong, Anke Hemmerling, Steve Miller, Kerianne E Burke, Sara J Newmann, Sheldon R Morris, Hilary Reno, Sanja Huibner, Maria Kulikova, Nico Nagelkerke, Bryan Coburn, Craig R Cohen, and Rupert Kaul. Lancet Microbe, 2022

 

 

Microbial stsueijignals, MyD88, and lymphotoxin drive TNF-independent intestinal epithelial tissue damage

Iulia Rusu, Elvira Mennillo, Jared L. Bain, Zhongmei Li, Xiaofei Sun, Kimberly M. Ly, Yenny Y. Rosli, Mohammad Naser, Zunqiu Wang, Rommel Advincula, Philip Achacoso, Ling Shao, Bahram Razani, Ophir D. Klein, Alexander Marson, Jessie A. Turnbaugh, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Barbara A. Malynn, Averil Ma, and Michael G. Kattah. J Clin Invest. 2022

 

MIMOSA2: a metabolic network-based tool for inferring mechanism-supported relationships in microbiome‐metabolome data

  Cecilia Noecker, Alexander Eng, Efrat Muller, Elhanan Borenstein. Bioinformatics, 2022.

 

DART takes aim at community editing

Connie W. Y. Ha & Suzanne Devkota, ​Nature Microbiology, 2022

 

2021

Moraxella-dominated pediatric nasopharyngeal microbiota associate with upper respiratory infection and sinusitis

Kathryn E. McCauley, Gregory DeMuri, Kole Lynch, Douglas W. Fadrosh, Clark Santee, Nabeetha N. Nagalingam, Ellen R, Wald, Susan V. LynchPLOS One, 2021.

 

The impact of environmental mycobiomes on geographic variation in COVID-19 mortality

Joshua Ladau, Katrina Abuabara, Angelica M. Walker, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Ishan Bansal, Yulun Wu, Elijah B. Hoffman, Chaincy Kuo, Nicola Falco, Jared Streich, Mark J. van der Laan, Haruko M. Wainwright, Eoin L. Brodie, Matthias Hess, Daniel Jacobson, and James B. Brown. MedRXiv (preprint), 2021.

 

Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro

Zhou Jason Shi, Boris Dimitrov, Chunyu Zhao, Stephen Nayfach & Katherine S. Pollard. Nature Biotechnology, 2021.

 

Periodontal Disease: The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown

Lea M. Sedghi, Margot Bacino and Yvonne Lorraine Kapila.Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 2021.

 

The oralome and its dysbiosis: New insights into oral microbiome-host interactions

Allan Radaic, Yvonne L.Kapila. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021

 

Baby’s skin bacteria: first impressions are long-lasting

Miqdad O.DhariwalaTiffany C.ScharschmidtTrends in Immunology, 2021

 

Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis

Margaret AlexanderQi Yan AngRenuka R.NayakAnnamarie E.BustionMoriah SandyBing ZhangVaibhav UpadhyayKatherine S.PollardSusan V. LynchPeter J.TurnbaughCell Host & Microbe, 2021.

 

Black In Immuno: harnessing social media and digital platforms to connect the dots

Joel Babdor, Amy C. Fan, Madina Wane, Berenice Mbiribindi, Alexis S. Mobley, Justine C. Noel & Elaine Kouame. Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021

 

Phage-delivered CRISPR-Cas9 for strain-specific depletion and genomic deletions in the gut microbiome

Kathy N. Lam, Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Paola Soto-Perez​, Allison M. Weakley, Feiqiao B. Yu, Peter J. Turnbaugh. Cell Reports, 2021 

 

The oral microbiome: Role of key organisms and complex networks in oral health and disease

Lea Sedghi, Vincent DiMassa, Anthony Harrington, Susan V. Lynch, Yvonne L. Kapila. Periodontology 2000, 2021

 

Maternal gut microbiome regulates immunity to RSV infection in offspring

Wendy Fonseca, Carrie-Anne Malinczak, Kei Fujimura, Danny LiKathryn McCauley, Jia L , Shannon K.K. Best, Diana Zhu, Andrew J. Rasky, Christine C. Johnson, Jennifer Bermick, Edward M. Zoratti, Dennis Ownby, Susan V. Lynch, Nicholas W. Lukacs, Catherine Ptaschinski. J Exp Med, 2021

 

Lung immune tone via gut-lung axis: gut-derived LPS and short-chain fatty acids’ immunometabolic regulation of lung IL-1β, FFAR2, and FFAR3 expression

Qing Liu, Xiaoli Tian, Daisuke Maruyama, Mehrdad Arjomandi, and Arun Prakash. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol, 2021

 

Caloric restriction disrupts the microbiota and colonization resistance

Reiner Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, Jordan E. Bisanz, Svetlana Lyalina, Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Qi Yan Ang, Jingwei Cai, Sophia Dickmann, Marie Friedrich, Su-Yang Liu, Stephanie L. Collins, Danielle Ingebrigtsen, Steve Miller, Jessie A. Turnbaugh, Andrew D. Patterson, Katherine S. Pollard, Knut Mai, Joachim Spranger & Peter J. TurnbaughNature, 2021

 

Intestinal changes associated with fluoride exposure in rats: Integrative morphological, proteomic and microbiome analyses

Aline Dionizio, Dawud Abduweli Uyghurturk, Carina Guimarães Souza Melo, Isabela Tomazini Sabino-Arias, Tamara Teodoro Araujo, Talita Mendes Silva Ventura, Juliana Vanessa Colombo Martins Perles, Jacqueline Nelisis Zanoni, Pamela Den Besten, Marília Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf. Chemosphere, 2021.

 

Hair of the mouse: A skin bacteria “cocktail” gets follicles back on their feet

Jeanmarie R. GonzalezGeil R. MeranaTiffany C. Scharschmidt. Cell Host and Microbe, 2021

 

 

The pulmonary metatranscriptome prior to pediatric HCT identifies post-HCT lung injury

Matt S Zinter, Caroline A Lindemans, Birgitta A Versluys, Madeline Y Mayday, Sara Sunshine, Gustavo Reyes, Marina Sirota, Anil Sapru, Michael A Matthay, Sandhya Kharbanda, Christopher C Dvorak, Jaap J Boelens, Joseph L DeRisi. Blood, 2021

 

The oralome and its dysbiosis: New insights into oral microbiome-host interactions

Allan Radaic and Yvonne L. Kapila. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021

 

Microbiota, Epigenetics, and Trained Immunity. Convergent Drivers and Mediators of the Asthma Trajectory from Pregnancy to Childhood

Susan V. Lynch and Donata Vercelli. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2021

 

2020

Gut microbiota-specific IgA+ B cells traffic to the CNS in active multiple sclerosis

AK Pröbstel, X Zhou, R Baumann, S Wischnewski, M Kutza, OL Rojas, K Sellrie, A Bischof, K Kim, A Ramesh, R Dandekar, AL Greenfield, RD Schubert, JE Bisanz, S Vistnes, K Khaleghi, J Landefeld, G Kirkish, F Liesche-Starnecker, V Ramaglia, S Singh, EB Tran, P Barba, K Zorn, J Oechtering, K Forsberg, LR Shiow, RG Henry, J Graves, BAC Cree, SL Hauser, J Kuhle, JM Gelfand, PM Andersen, J Schlege, PJ Turnbaugh, PH Seeberger, JL Gommerman, MR Wilson, L Schirmer, SE Baranzini. Science Immunology, 2020. 

 

Periodontal pathogens promote cancer aggressivity via TLR/MyD88 triggered activation of Integrin/FAK signaling that is therapeutically reversible by a probiotic bacteriocin

P Kamarajan, I Ateia, JM Shin, JC Fenno, C Le, L Zhan, A Chang, R Darveau, YL Kapila. PLOS Pathogens, 2020
 

Modulation of pathogenic oral biofilms towards health with nisin probiotic

Radaic A, Ye C, Parks B, Gao L, Kuraji R, Malone E, Kamarajan P, Zhan L, Kapila YL. J Oral Microbiol. 2020

 

Deconstructing Mechanisms of Diet-Microbiome-Immune Interactions

Margaret Alexander, Peter J.Turnbaugh. Immunity, 2020

 

 

Household paired design reduces variance and increases power in multi-city gut microbiome study in multiple sclerosis

The iMSMS Consortium (SE Baranzini). Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2020.
 

Polymicrobial periodontal disease triggers a wide radius of effect and unique virome

Li Gao, Misun Kang, Martin Jinye Zhang, M. Reza Sailani, Ryutaro Kuraji, April Martinez, Changchang Ye, Pachiyappan Kamarajan, Charles Le, Ling Zhan, Hélène Rangé, Sunita P. Ho & Yvonne L. Kapila. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2020
 

Probing the tumor micro(b)environment

Chloe E. Atreya, Peter J. Turnbaugh. Science, 2020
 

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

Qi Yan Ang, Margaret Alexander, John C. Newman, Yuan Tian, Jingwei Cai, Vaibhav Upadhyay, Jessie A.Turnbaugh, Eric Verdin, Kevin D. Hall, Rudolph L.Leibel, Eric Ravussin, Michael Rosenbaum, Andrew D.Patterson, Peter J.Turnbaugh. Cell, 2020
 

Bacterial metabolism rescues the inhibition of intestinal drug absorption by food and drug additives​

Ling Zou,  Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Lindsey M. Pieper, Huan-Chieh Chien, Wenlong Cai,  Natalia Khuri,  Joshua Pottel, Bianca Vora, Zhanglin Ni, Eleftheria Tsakalozou,  Wenjun Zhang, Brian K. Shoichet,  Kathleen M. Giacomini, and  Peter J. Turnbaugh. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
 

A Genomic Toolkit for the Mechanistic Dissection of Intractable Human Gut Bacteria

JE Bisanz, P Soto-Perez, C Noecker, AA Aksenov, KN Lam, GE Kenney, EN Bess, HJ Haiser, TS Kyaw, FB Yu, VM Rekdal, CWY Ha, S Devkota, EP Balskus, PC Dorrestein, E Allen-Vercoe, PJ Turnbaugh. Cell Host and Microbe, 2020

 

Phylogenize: correcting for phylogeny reveals genes associated with microbial distributions.

P.H. Bradley, K.S. PollardBioinformatics, 2020

 

Viable bacterial colonization is highly limited in the human intestine in utero.

Rackaityte E, Halkias J, Fukui EM, Mendoza VF, Hayzelden C, Crawford ED, Fujimura KE, Burt TD, Lynch SVNature Medicine, 2020
 

Genetic basis for the cooperative bioactivation of plant lignans by Eggerthella lenta and other human gut bacteria.

Bess EN, Bisanz JE, Yarza F, Bustion A, Rich BE, Li X, Kitamura S, Waligurski E, Ang QY, Alba DL, Spanogiannopoulos P, Nayfach S, Koliwad SK, Wolan DW, Franke AA, Turnbaugh PJNature Microbiology, 2020
 

2019

Toxin-Triggered Interleukin-1 Receptor Signaling Enables Early-Life Discrimination of Pathogenic versus Commensal Skin Bacteria.

Leech JM, Dhariwala MO, Lowe MM, Chu K, Merana GR, Cornuot C, Weckel A, Ma JM, Leitner EG, Gonzalez JR, Vasquez KS, Diep BA, Scharschmidt TCCell Host & Microbe, 2019
 

Elevated faecal 12,13-diHOME concentration in neonates at high risk for asthma is produced by gut bacteria and impedes immune tolerance.

Levan, S.R., Stamnes, K.A., Lin, D.L., Panzer A.R., Fukui E., McCauley K, Fujimura KE, McKean M, Ownby DR, Zoratti EM, Boushey HA, Cabana MD, Johnson CC, Lynch SV. Nature Microbiology, 2019

Population Genetics in the Human Microbiome

N.G. Garud and K.S. PollardTrends in Genetics, 2019
 

A unified sequence catalogue of over 280,000 genomes obtained from the human gut microbiome

A. Almeida, S. Nayfach, M. Boland, F. Strozzi, M. Beracochea, Z.J. Shi, K.S. Pollard, D.H. Parks, P. Hugenholtz, N. Segata, N.C. Kyrpides, R.D. Finn. BioRxiv, 2019
 

Longitudinal linked read sequencing reveals ecological and evolutionary responses of a human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment

M. Roodgar, B.H. Good, N.R. Garud, S. Martis, M. Avula, W. Zhou, S. Lancaster, H. Lee, A. Babveyh, S. Nesamoney, K.S. Pollard, M.P. Snyder. BioRxiv, 2019
 

Cooking shapes the structure and function of the gut microbiome 

Carmody RN, Bisanz JE, Bowen BP, Maurice CF, Lyalina S, Louie KB, Treen D, Chadaideh KS, Maini Rekdal V, Bess EN, Spanogiannopoulos P, Ang QY, Bauer KC, Balon TW, Pollard KS, Northen TR, Turnbaugh PJNature Microbiology, 2019
 

CRISPR-Cas System of a Prevalent Human Gut Bacterium Reveals Hyper-targeting against Phages in a Human Virome Catalog 

Soto-Perez P, Bisanz JE, Berry JD, Lam KN, Bondy-Denomy J, Turnbaugh PJCell Host Microbe, 2019
 

Recirculating Intestinal IgA-Producing Cells Regulate Neuroinflammation via IL-10.

Rojas OL, Pröbstel AK, Porfilio EA, Wang AA, Charabati M, Sun T, Lee DSW, Galicia G, Ramaglia V, Ward LA, Leung LYT, Najafi G, Khaleghi K, Garcillán B, Li A, Besla R, Naouar I, Cao EY, Chiaranunt P, Burrows K, Robinson HG, Allanach JR, Yam J, Luck H, Campbell DJ, Allman D, Brooks DG, Tomura M, Baumann R, Zamvil SS, Bar-Or A, Horwitz MS, Winer DA, Mortha A, Mackay F, Prat A, Osborne LC, Robbins C, Baranzini SE, Gommerman JL. Cell, 2019