Rob Knight

TL;DR: It is shown that adults from the non-western population harbor a diverse community of protists, and diversity in the human gut is comparable to that in other mammals, however, the eukaryotic microbiota of the western population appears depauperate.

TL;DR: Evidence of altered gut microbial composition in persons with chronic schizophrenia is provided and a need for larger and longitudinal studies of microbiome in schizophrenia is suggested.

TL;DR: The metabolic benefits of gastric bypass surgery and diet were similar and were apparently related to weight loss itself, with no evident clinically important effects independent of weight loss.

TL;DR: It is shown that phylogenetically interspersed bacteria in Clostridium cluster XIVa, an abundant group of bacteria in the adult human gut, contains species that have evolved distribution patterns consistent with either early successional or stable gut communities, indicating that a subset of the microbiota may do well in both early development and with disease.

TL;DR: Results suggest that arid-soil microbiome stability is sensitive to aridity as demonstrated by decreased community connectivity associated with the transition from the arid class to the hyperarid class and the significant correlations observed between soilRH and both diversity and the relative abundances of key microbial phyla typically dominant in global soils.