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Christopher M. Taylor

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Microbiology
Research interest
Research interests include Gut microbiota and health, Reproductive tract infections research, Urinary Tract Infections Management, and Probiotics and Fermented Foods.
h-index
49
citations
20,847
works
235
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

The Impact of Testosterone Therapy on the Vaginal Microbiota of Transgender Men and Nonbinary People: A Prospective Study
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Investigating Bacterial Vaginosis Pathogenesis Using Peptide Nucleic Acid-Fluorescence <i>In Situ</i> Hybridization With a Focus on the Roles of <i>Gardnerella</i> Species, <i>Prevotella bivia</i>, and <i>Fannyhessea vaginae</i>
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Does a waiting room increase same-day treatment for sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women? A quality improvement study at South African primary healthcare facilities
BMC Health Services Research 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
The Role of Prevotella Species in Female Genital Tract Infections
Pathogens 2024cited by 24position: middledoi
Alcohol-induced gut microbial reorganization and associated overproduction of phenylacetylglutamine promotes cardiovascular disease
Nature Communications 2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Microbial interactions among<i>Gardnerella</i>,<i>Prevotella</i>and<i>Fannyhessea</i>prior to incident bacterial vaginosis: protocol for a prospective, observational study
BMJ Open 2024cited by 9position: lastdoi
State of the Art for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2023cited by 54position: middledoi
Characterization of Vaginal Microbial Community Dynamics in the Pathogenesis of Incident Bacterial Vaginosis, a Pilot Study
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2023cited by 12position: middledoi
Impact of testosterone use on the vaginal microbiota of transgender men, including susceptibility to bacterial vaginosis: study protocol for a prospective, observational study
BMJ Open 2023cited by 9position: lastdoi
DNA extraction leads to bias in bacterial quantification by qPCR
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2022cited by 31position: middledoi
Sexually transmitted infection screening to prevent adverse birth and newborn outcomes: study protocol for a randomized-controlled hybrid-effectiveness trial
Trials 2022cited by 25position: middledoi
Same-Day Treatment Following Point-of-Care Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in Different Healthcare Settings in South Africa
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 13position: middledoi
PICRUSt2 for prediction of metagenome functions
Nature Biotechnology 2020cited by 6,350position: middledoi
An Updated Conceptual Model on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Vaginosis
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019cited by 276position: middledoi
Identification of Key Bacteria Involved in the Induction of Incident Bacterial Vaginosis: A Prospective Study
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2018cited by 144position: middledoi
Infant Colic Represents Gut Inflammation and Dysbiosis
The Journal of Pediatrics 2018cited by 114position: middledoi
Assessing the spatial and temporal variability of bacterial communities in two Bardenpho wastewater treatment systems via Illumina MiSeq sequencing
The Science of The Total Environment 2018cited by 73position: middledoi
Comparative genome-wide analysis of extracellular small RNAs from the mucormycosis pathogen Rhizopus delemar
Scientific Reports 2018cited by 49position: middledoi
In Silico and Experimental Evaluation of Primer Sets for Species-Level Resolution of the Vaginal Microbiota Using 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequencing
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2018cited by 48position: middledoi
Resetting microbiota by <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> inhibits T reg deficiency–induced autoimmunity via adenosine A2A receptors
The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2016cited by 198position: middledoi
Intestinal microbiota in pediatric patients with end stage renal disease: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study
Microbiome 2016cited by 120position: middledoi
Microbial Contamination in Next Generation Sequencing: Implications for Sequence-Based Analysis of Clinical Samples
PLoS Pathogens 2014cited by 193position: middledoi
Separated at birth? The functional and molecular divergence of OLIG1 and OLIG2
Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2012cited by 179position: middledoi
Whole-Genome Sequencing of the Akata and Mutu Epstein-Barr Virus Strains
Journal of Virology 2012cited by 113position: middledoi

Grants

CC* Compute: Compute Cluster for Computational Sciences at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO)
NSF2018936$399,4582020–2023PIRePORTER
CSBR: Natural History Collections: Integrating the Orphaned Southern Illinois University Fluid Vertebrate Collections into the Illinois Natural History Survey Collections
NSF1916255$280,9762019–2023PIRePORTER
RAPID: Transferring the Southern Illinois University Fluid Vertebrate Collections to the Illinois Natural History Survey
NSF1529366$141,8892015–2016PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: CSBR: Natural History Collections: Georeferencing U.S. Fish Collections: a community-based model to georeferencing natural history collections
NSF1203106$130,8582012–2015PIRePORTER
Functional Genomics of Transfer Cells
NSF1104334$1,351,8042010–2012PIRePORTER
Functional Genomics of Transfer Cells
NSF0821954$1,986,6922008–2011PIRePORTER
Identification, Characterization, and Functional Analysis of Nematode-Inducible Amino Acid and Peptide Transporters in Arabidopsis
NSF0344265$536,5932004–2008PIRePORTER
Acquisition of a Laser Capture Microdissection System
NSF0421407$165,8942004–2007PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Christina A. Muzny · University of Alabama at Birmingham14 papers (2018–2025)Jacob H. Elnaggar · University of New Orleans7 papers (2023–2025)Ashutosh Tamhane · University of Alabama at Birmingham7 papers (2019–2025)Meng Luo · Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine6 papers (2016–2025)Kristal J. Aaron · University of Alabama at Birmingham6 papers (2018–2025) · 6 papers (2019–2025)Olivia T. Van Gerwen · University of Alabama at Birmingham4 papers (2023–2025)Keonte J. Graves · University of Alabama at Birmingham4 papers (2023–2025)Evelyn Toh · Tufts University3 papers (2023–2025)Jeffrey D. Klausner · William Jewell College3 papers (2022–2025)Andrew Medina‐Marino · Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation3 papers (2022–2025) · 3 papers (2016–2018)Remco P. H. Peters · University of Cape Town3 papers (2022–2025)Chaoling Dong · University of Alabama at Birmingham3 papers (2024–2025)Elliot J. Lefkowitz · University of Alabama at Birmingham3 papers (2018–2023)Melody Baddoo · Tulane University2 papers (2012–2014)Yuying Liu · Harbin Medical University2 papers (2016–2018)Guorong Xu · Hunan University of Science and Technology2 papers (2012–2014)Michael J. Strong · Tulane University2 papers (2012–2014)Erik K. Flemington · Tulane University2 papers (2012–2014)