Jerry He

The paper engineers a gut bacterium to enhance osmotic resistance, enabling it to survive malabsorption in industrialized microbiomes.

The paper develops a model to show how cell death and growth dynamics affect DNA replication-based estimates of microbial growth, validating findings with experiments on E. coli.

This study shows that bowel preparation with PEG increases susceptibility to pathogens and exacerbates inflammation in mouse and in vitro models.

The paper expands genetic tools for Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to create biosensors for detecting gut malabsorption through fluorescence-based environmental sensing.

This study correlates genetic expression and electrochemical activity in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, showing electrochemical activity is present in biofilm-forming cells but not in biofilm-deficient mutants.