Jillian L. Waters

Serial transfer of low-activity mice gut microbiomes to germ-free mice reduced locomotor activity, showing microbiome transmission can influence host traits independently of genetic changes.

This study shows that microbial colonization affects liver sphingolipids but not plasma fatty acids in mice fed a high-soybean-oil diet.

The paper shows that human AMY1 gene copy number affects oral and gut microbiome composition and function, with low-AMY1 associated with enhanced complex carbohydrate breakdown and high-AMY1 linked to resistant starch fermentation and higher adiposity.