Allison M. Weakley

The paper shows that T cells specific for microbiota and diet antigens predominantly become regulatory T cells (iTregs) in the gut, with effector responses emerging only under specific inflammatory and genetic conditions.

This study shows that gut microbial composition affects food allergen-specific CD4+ T cells, leading to differences in food allergy severity between mouse strains.

The paper shows that modifying microbial community composition, specifically overexpressing bile acid metabolic genes in Lactobacillus strains, can alter bile acid pool size and composition in mice.

The paper uses a single-strain dropout screen in a defined microbial community to show how removing specific strains affects community composition and metabolic output.

The paper identifies coordinated variation between immune systems and microbiomes in healthy humans, linking it to tonic interferon states.

The paper develops a method to detect invertons in gut microbiome metagenomic data and finds associations between inverton dynamics and intestinal colonization and surface adhesion.

The paper investigates how gut microbiota modify steroidal alkaloids from Solanum plants, affecting host exposure and physiological effects.

The paper presents an improved Aedes aegypti genome assembly, AaegL5, which enhances biological understanding and vector control efforts by resolving key genomic features and identifying new targets for intervention.