***Selected publications – growing everyday
Animal
Microcystis Toxin-Mediated Tumor Promotion and Toxicity Lead to Shifts in Mouse Gut Microbiome. Link
Distinctive gut microbiota of honey bees assessed using deep sampling from individual worker bees. Link
Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont. Link
Gut microbiota in wild and captive Guizhou snub‐nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus brelichi. Link
Plant
A Pathovar of Xanthomonas oryzae Infecting Wild Grasses Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Pathogenicity in Rice Agroecosystems. Link
Human
Water security and gut microbiome in rural Nicaraguan children. Link
Amish (Rural) vs. non-Amish (Urban) Infant Fecal Microbiotas Are Highly Diverse and Their Transplantation Lead to Differences in Mucosal Immune Maturation in a Humanized Germfree Piglet Model. Link
Indoor microbial communities: Influence on asthma severity in atopic and nonatopic children. Link
Clostridioides difficile uses amino acids associated with gut microbial dysbiosis in a subset of patients with diarrhea. Link
Environment
Tile drainage and land use contribute to harmful algal bloom and microbiota shift in inland water. Link
Urban stormwater microbiome and antibiotic resistance profile. Link
Microbiome and resistome of drinking water treatment residuals that are used for agricultural application. Link
Microbiome and antibiotic resistance in integrated fish farm water. Link
Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean’s Interior. Link
Quantitative evaluation of bioaerosols in different particle size fractions in dust collected on the International Space Station (ISS). Link
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Link
Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw. Link
Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient. Link
Expanding Tara Oceans protocols for underway, ecosystemic sampling of the ocean-atmosphere interface during Tara Pacific expedition. Link
The Tara Pacific expedition—A pan-ecosystemic approach of the “-omics” complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean. Link
Oil Biodegradation and Oil-Degrading Microbial Populations in Marsh Sediments Impacted by Oil from the Deepwater Horizon Well Blowout. Link
Global forensic geolocation with deep neural networks. Link
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Link
Morphology and quantification of fungal growth in residential dust and carpets. Link
Engineered Systems
Fighting Fire with Fire: Phage Potential for the Treatment of E. coli O157 Infection. Link
Community Resources and Tools
The ISOGENIE project
iVirus: facilitating new insights in viral ecology with software and community data sets imbedded in a cyberinfrastructure. Link