A. Rodriguez-Palacios

The paper investigates antigenic operon fragmentation in Bacteroidota, finding that genomic insertions and natural selection drive operon fragmentation, affecting pro-inflammatory properties and commensalism.

This study shows that two-layer household textiles effectively prevent bacterial droplet contamination in germ-free mice, demonstrating their potential as a universal droplet barrier.

This paper shows that increasing sample size in multimodal disease studies does not guarantee reproducibility due to data subtypes and variability, and proposes using kernel-density-violin plots to better understand disease subtypes.

The paper identifies six actionable themes to reduce artificial heterogeneity in mouse-microbiome studies by addressing statistical and practical issues in housing density and data analysis.