Area of research
Molecular Biology · Epidemiology
Research interest
Research interests include Gut microbiota and health, Urinary Tract Infections Management, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and Infant Nutrition and Health.
The microbiota vault initiative: safeguarding Earth’s microbial heritage for future generations
Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity
Charting a path for microbial conservation in the IUCN: report on “Conservation in a Microbial World” meeting in San Diego, CA, May 2025
Examining the healthy human microbiome concept
The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health
Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis
Enhancing untargeted metabolomics using metadata-based source annotation
The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome
Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques
Naturalization of the microbiota developmental trajectory of Cesarean-born neonates after vaginal seeding
Context-aware dimensionality reduction deconvolutes gut microbial community dynamics
Role of the microbiome in human development
Home chemical and microbial transitions across urbanization
Comparative prevalence of Oxalobacter formigenes in three human populations
Impact of reproductive aging on the vaginal microbiome and soluble immune mediators in women living with and at-risk for HIV infection
Preserving microbial diversity
Links between environment, diet, and the hunter-gatherer microbiome
Cervicovaginal Fungi and Bacteria Associated With Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Infections in a Hispanic Population
Complex virome in feces from Amerindian children in isolated Amazonian villages
Differences in the fecal microbiota of neonates born at home or in the hospital
Bacterial DNA is present in the fetal intestine and overlaps with that in the placenta in mice
Changes in the Gut Microbiota of Urban Subjects during an Immersion in the Traditional Diet and Lifestyle of a Rainforest Village
A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania
Partial restoration of the microbiota of cesarean-born infants via vaginal microbial transfer
Walls talk: Microbial biogeography of homes spanning urbanization
The first microbial environment of infants born by C-section: the operating room microbes
Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species
Human microbiome science: vision for the future, Bethesda, MD, July 24 to 26, 2013
Biphasic assembly of the murine intestinal microbiota during early development