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Rob Knight

Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Publications -  1188
Citations -  322479

Rob Knight is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Biology. The author has an hindex of 201, co-authored 1061 publications receiving 253207 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Knight include Anschutz Medical Campus & University of Sydney.

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PrimerProspector: de novo design and taxonomic analysis of barcoded polymerase chain reaction primers

William A. Walters, +5 more
- 15 Apr 2011 - 
TL;DR: This work has shown that PCR amplification of DNA is a key preliminary step in many applications of high-throughput sequencing technologies, yet design of novel barcoded primers and taxonomic analysis of novel or existing primers remains a challenging task.
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Alterations in the Gut Microbiota Associated with HIV-1 Infection

Catherine A. Lozupone, +9 more
- 11 Sep 2013 - 
TL;DR: Evaluating innate and adaptive immune responses to lysates from bacteria that differ with HIV explores the functional drivers of these compositional differences and identifies Prevotella-rich community composition most similar to healthy individuals in agrarian cultures of Malawi and Venezuela.
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The microbiome and human cancer.

Gregory D. Sepich-Poore, +5 more
- 26 Mar 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors delineate between causal and complicit roles of microbes in cancer and trace common themes of their influence through the host's immune system, defined as the immuno-oncology-microbiome axis.
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Preservation Methods Differ in Fecal Microbiome Stability, Affecting Suitability for Field Studies.

Se Jin Song, +7 more
TL;DR: The results provide the most comprehensive view to date of storage effects on stool and provide a paradigm for the future studies of other sample types that will be required to provide a global view of microbial diversity and its interaction among humans, animals, and the environment.
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Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

Noah Fierer, +9 more
- 01 Apr 2011 - 
TL;DR: Bacteria living in three distinct habitats in eastern Peru exhibit no significant elevational gradient in diversity, in direct contrast to the significant diversity changes observed for plant and animal taxa across the same montane gradient.