Mitra Ghotbi

This study examines how zoo management and diet affect the gut microbiome of eastern hellbenders, finding that wild diets and release into natural habitats can restore microbial communities closer to wild-type patterns.

The paper investigates how snake skin lipid chemistry and the microbiome influence the growth of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, revealing antifungal lipids and bacterial-fungal interactions that shape the skin microbiome.

The paper validates HiMEx, a microvolume DNA extraction method, showing it captures comparable microbial community data and more viral genomes than conventional methods at lower cost.

This paper introduces DspikeIn, a tool for absolute abundance quantification in microbiomes, showing it improves resolution and reduces false discoveries compared to relative abundance methods.

The paper investigates how an invasive seaweed host influences its microbial biofilm compared to native hosts, finding it exerts greater influence and promiscuity in microbial associations.