Emily Davenport

SCiMS predicts host chromosomal sex from metagenomic data, outperforming existing tools at low host coverage and across species.

The paper analyzes the gut microbiome of South Asian communities to show that urbanization impacts microbiomes differently across communities, with geography and culture playing a stronger role than lifestyle.

The paper identifies region-specific host-microbiome associations in the human intestine using transcriptomic and microbiome data from non-inflamed tissue.

This study investigates how the gut microbiome interacts with aging and dietary restriction in mice, finding that host genetics significantly influence microbiome features and that dietary restriction does not rejuvenate the microbiome.

The paper develops long-read sequencing primers for the gyrB gene to improve phylogenetic accuracy and specificity in bacterial classification.

This study examines oral microbiomes of Nepali individuals with different lifestyles, finding that lifestyle, not geography, shapes microbiome composition across a gradient from foraging to industrialized.

This paper develops a statistical framework to detect gene-environment interactions by focusing on variance-associated genetic variants, finding higher discovery rates for BMI and disease-related traits.