Siddharth Uppal

Community-wide adaptive evolution of gut bacteria during dietary transitions

This study shows that dietary transitions drive reproducible adaptive evolution in gut bacteria across multiple species, with specific genetic responses observed in key functions like invertases.

A granular view of the traits controlling soil bacterial community reconstruction following a prescribed burn

The paper examines how soil bacterial communities recover after prescribed burns by analyzing genome conservation and functional equivalence across time and space.

Repeated horizontal acquisition of lagriamide-producing symbionts in Lagriinae beetles

The paper identifies multiple independent acquisitions of lagriamide-producing Burkholderia symbionts in Lagriinae beetles, showing genome erosion and lack of host-symbiont co-diversification.

Autometa 2: A versatile tool for recovering genomes from highly-complex metagenomic communities

Autometa 2 improves genome recovery from metagenomic data by simplifying installation, adding a GUI, and enhancing performance through parameter optimization.