E. M. Gertz

Predicting cancer prognosis and drug response from the tumor microbiome

This study shows that tumor microbial abundances can predict cancer prognosis and drug response, though less effectively than gene expression data.

scRNA-seq analysis of colon and esophageal tumors uncovers abundant microbial reads in myeloid cells undergoing proinflammatory transcriptional alterations

The paper develops a computational pipeline to identify microbial reads in scRNA-seq data and finds that microbial reads are enriched in myeloid cells with proinflammatory transcriptional changes.