Ilana Brito

The paper profiles gut bacterial extracellular vesicles (bEVs) and links their cargo composition to host transcriptional responses across different cell types.

This study isolates and characterizes Rheinheimera sp. T2C2, a non-pathogenic bacterium capable of effectively biosorbing cobalt, with potential for bioremediation and metal recycling.

This study shows that environmental factors, not glycan utilization, drive bacterial degradation of gastrointestinal mucus, with protease activity and nutrient/oxygen conditions playing key roles.

The paper characterizes gut microbiomes in rural Honduras, identifying novel species and host-microbiome associations through metagenomic sequencing and genomic data integration.

The paper introduces a method to map microbiome-host interactions in the gut at high spatial resolution using in situ polyadenylation and spatial RNA sequencing, revealing microbial biogeography and host-microbe interactions in a mouse model.

The paper isolates and compares 63 Segatella copri strains from a single gut microbiome, revealing phenotypic and host-microbe interaction differences.

This study shows that altering the gut microbiome in adult mice can reduce or restore bone matrix strength, with sex-specific effects.

The paper identifies gut microbiota-associated bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) with distinct substrate preferences using chemoproteomic profiling.

This study introduces PTA, a single-cell amplification technique that produces nearly complete bacterial genomes and improves viral and gene cluster recovery compared to standard methods.

This paper identifies and characterizes a novel bacterial polysaccharide, promonan, and presents methods to manipulate its properties and shorten purification time.

The paper uses bacterial Hi-C to study horizontal gene transfer of mobile antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiomes, finding distinct HGT networks between individuals and increased dispersal in neutropenic patients.

This study analyzes 24-hour residential sewage using untargeted genomics and metabolomics to identify human-derived biomarkers and inform public health.