Jeanette L. Gehrig

TL;DR: Identifying ingredients in complementary foods, consumed during the transition from exclusive milk feeding to a fully weaned state, that increase the representation and expressed beneficial functions of growth-promoting bacterial taxa in the developing microbiota could provide an effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and sustainable approach to treatment.

TL;DR: A statistical workflow was developed to identify conserved bacterial taxon-taxon covariance in the gut communities of healthy members of a Bangladeshi birth cohort who provided fecal samples monthly, suggesting that the ecogroup network is a conserved general feature of microbiota organization.

TL;DR: Persistent, severe growth faltering may reduce the gut microbiota's resistance and resilience to diarrhea, leading to greater losses of diversity and longer recovery times, which denotes an increased risk of future diarrheal disease and growthfaltering.

TL;DR: Despite higher costs, both amplicon and metagenomic long-read approaches yielded added microbiome data value in the form of higher confidence taxonomic and functional resolution and improved recovery of microbial genomes compared to traditional short-read methodologies.

TL;DR: Experimental results on a publicly available metagenomic dataset show superior clustering for shorter contigs compared to traditionally used tetranucleotide frequency (TNF), reconstruction of up to 17% more high-precision genomes, and improved semantic understanding of contigs.