Hannah Sturgeon

High reproducibility demonstrated in a direct-to-consumer microbiome testing workflow under real-world conditions using fecal reference material

This study demonstrates high reproducibility in a DTC microbiome testing workflow using NIST fecal reference material across multiple processing steps and real-world conditions.

Integrating stool chemistry measurements with metagenomics in adults reveals distinct gut health profiles

The paper integrates stool chemistry metrics with shotgun metagenomics in adults to identify distinct gut health profiles associated with microbial and inflammatory markers.

Robust taxonomic classification in gut and vaginal microbiomes demonstrated through benchmarking with age-specific synthetic communities

The paper benchmarks metagenomic pipelines using age- and body site-specific synthetic communities, showing THMCv2 has higher recall and F1 scores while MetaPhlAn4 has higher precision.