Featured Publications

Get to know some of the latest publications by our faculties.

 

Distribution of study participants by age and health outcome. (a) colors in all subplots reflect health status of groups as provided in the legend of subplot a. The sample population is not uniform for age ranges, with a higher proportion of older participants falling into the severe group. (b) age has a strong association with health outcomes (p-value = 0.001). (c) BMI is not associated with health outcomes (p-value = 0.1488). For assessing the association of age and gender with the health outcome status,

Metabolite, protein, and tissue dysfunction associated with COVID‑19 disease severity

July 16, 2022

Proteins are direct products of the genome and metabolites are functional products of interactions between the host and other factors.

HAllAgram for block-wise associations.

High-sensitivity pattern discovery in large, paired multiomic datasets

June 27, 2022

We present a novel framework which integrates hierarchical hypothesis testing with FDR correction to reveal linear and non-linear relationships among data.

Chart showing how aspirin affects the relationship between time after hospitalization and probability of survival.

Association of Early Aspirin Use With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Moderate COVID-19

March 24, 2022

Prior studies suggest aspirin may be associated with reduced mortality in high-risk patients with COVID-19, but patients with moderate COVID-19 are not studied.

546 Therapeutic beta-lactam dosages and broad-spectrum antibiotics are associated with short-term reductions in microbial richness and beta-diversity

October 1, 2022

People with cystic fibrosis have morbid pulmonary exacerbations. Antibiotics are common, yet the beta-lactam doses administered are less than half the time.

Host taxonomy determines the composition, structure, and diversity of the earthworm cast microbiome under homogenous feeding conditions

August 4, 2022

Host evolutionary history is a key factor shaping the earthworm cast microbiome, although its effect can be shadowed by the earthworm’s diet.

Taxonomic composition of bacteriomes. Venn diagrams representing the core unique and shared microbiomes in cows faecal material and milk samples, and mouse faecal material and mammary tissues. Bacterial species detected in A cows faecal material, B cows milk, C mouse faecal material and D mouse mammary tissues. E Unique and shared bacterial species in CM, and F unique and shared bacterial species in H metagenomes of both cows and mice. Bacterial species shared in cow and mouse mastitis

Induction of mastitis by cow-to-mouse fecal and milk microbiota transplantation causes microbiome dysbiosis and genomic functional perturbation in mice

July 6, 2022

To understand the host-tropism phenomena of bovine-tropic mastitis microbiomes, we developed a cow-to-mouse mastitis model.

Differential expression of single-cell RNA-seq data using Tweedie models

June 2, 2022

To model the technological variability in cross-platform scRNA-seq data, here we propose to use Tweedie generalized linear models.