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Victoria Gates

Baylor College of Medicine

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Hidden palette: Culturing the sauropsid gut microbiome reveals a high prevalence and diversity of bacteria that undergo carotenoid biosynthesis

Alix E. Matthews, Victoria Gates, Kartikey Sharma, Sebastian Gallego, Madeline Desmond, Samantha S. Fontaine, Brian K. Trevelline, Marcella D. Baiz

The paper isolates gut bacteria from wild sauropsids and finds a high prevalence of carotenoid-producing microbes across multiple species.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology · Sep 4, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

The neural basis of emotional generalization in empathy

Jiayang Xiao, Anusha B. Allawala, Joshua A. Adkinson, Xiaoxu Fan, Melissa C. Franch, Victoria Gates, Raissa K. Mathura, Madaline M. Mocchi, John Myers, Bailey Pascuzzi, Suhruthaa Pulapaka, Garrett P. Banks, Eleonora Bartoli, Wayne K. Goodman, Sanjay J. Mathew, , Benjamin Y. Hayden

This study investigates how the brain generalizes emotions across individuals, finding that the insula encodes emotions and persons separately, enabling cross-person generalization.

bioRxiv · Oct 18, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience