David Seki

The paper introduces improved 16S rRNA V4 primers that enhance detection of underrepresented microbial lineages across diverse environments.

This study identifies host-specific genomic and microbiome adaptations in Bifidobacterium across diverse animal hosts, revealing co-evolutionary dynamics and functional traits shaped by diet and phylogeny.

The paper shows that Escherichia coli and Bifidobacterium bifidum have a mutualistic interaction in degrading human milk oligosaccharides in healthy infants.

This study shows that the Parkinson's drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis by sequestering iron, affecting microbial metabolism and promoting iron-scavenging organisms with resistance genes.

This study identifies putative keystone taxa in the human gut microbiome using correlation network analysis and evaluates the impact of taxonomic resolution on their detection.