Rob Knight

TL;DR: The highly preserved microbial modules accurately classified IBD status of individual patients during disease quiescence, suggesting that microbial dysbiosis in IBD may be an underlying disorder independent of disease activity.

TL;DR: In a recent review as mentioned in this paper, the authors discuss the informatics and hardware tools available for small-molecule analysis and provide an overview of the tools that could transform how we study the chemistry of biological systems; perhaps in the future this will be as easy as taking a photograph with a smartphone.

TL;DR: This tutorial analyzes a subset of the Early Childhood Antibiotics and the Microbiome study, which tracked the microbiome composition and development of 43 infants in the United States from birth to 2 years of age, identifying microbiome associations with antibiotic exposure, delivery mode, and diet.

TL;DR: Overall, optimal stability and reproducibility were achieved using FOBT, making this a reasonable sample collection method for 16S analysis, and having standardized method of collecting and storing stable fecal samples will allow future investigations into the role of gut microbiota in chronic disease etiology in large population studies.

TL;DR: A systematic review of clinical studies of microbiome in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder suggests that these disorders are associated with reduced microbial diversity and show global community differences compared to non-psychiatric comparison samples.