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Katya Moniz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism

Mathilde Poyet, Malte Christoph Rühlemann, Ana Paula Schaan, Yue Ma, Lucas Moitinho‐Silva, Eike Matthias Wacker, Hannah Jebens, Lucas Patel, Le Thanh Tu Nguyen, Alexis Zimmer, Damian Rafal Plichta, Daniel McDonald, Christine R. Stevens, Adwoa Agyei Nkansah, Mary Afihene, , Mathieu Groussin

The paper investigates how industrialization affects microbial and physiological traits in the human gut across diverse populations, finding homogenized microbiomes, reduced diversity, and impaired disease prediction accuracy in less industrialized groups.

bioRxiv · Oct 20, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology

Microbial Species Abundance Distributions Guide Human Population Size Estimation from Sewage Microbiomes

Lin Zhang, Likai Chen, Xiaoqian Annie Yu, Claire Duvallet, Siavash Isazadeh, Chengzhen L. Dai, Shinkyu Park, Katya Moniz, Fábio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, Eric J. Alm, Fangqiong Ling

This paper introduces MicrobiomeCensus, an algorithm to estimate human population size from sewage samples using microbial taxon abundance distributions, showing it outperforms generic algorithms in simulations and field data.

bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2020 · PreprintBioinformatics