Erica Dutil Sonnenburg

The paper identifies functional divergence in gut Clostridia from Hadza hunter-gatherers, revealing diet-adapted metabolic pathways that influence gut ecology.

The paper compares gut microbiomes of Tsimane and Hadza populations to show that many microbes co-migrated with humans globally, but are now vanishing in industrialized populations.

This study identifies fermentation-derived metabolites (FDMs) from fermented foods that modulate immune, microbial, and metabolic systems to reduce inflammation and metabolic disease severity.