Sharon Huws

Development and Refinement of Microbial DNA Extraction Protocol from Bovine Milk

The paper evaluates fourteen DNA extraction protocols for microbial DNA from bovine milk and identifies an optimized version of the QIAGEN DNeasy PowerSoil kit as the most effective.

Struvite fertiliser offers a sustainable solution for recycling of phosphorus for crop growth without altering the soil resistome.

This study evaluates the impact of struvite fertiliser on soil antimicrobial resistance and finds no significant increase in AMR genes or resistant bacteria compared to conventional fertilisers.

Dietary inclusion of Asparagopsis taxiformis significantly reduces methane emissions in dairy ruminants by mechanistically altering vitamin B12 coenzyme production and other methanogenesis precursor pathways.

Novel integrated computational AMP discovery approaches highlight diversity in the helminth AMP repertoire

This study introduces a novel computational pipeline to discover antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in helminths, revealing unique AMP-like peptides and highlighting their potential as novel antimicrobials.

The Nematode Antimicrobial Peptidome: a novel opportunity for parasite control?

This study identifies 5887 AMP-encoding genes across 134 nematode genomes, revealing diverse AMP profiles influenced by lifestyle and clade, with implications for drug discovery.

Recovery of gene haplotypes from a metagenome

This paper introduces a method to recover gene haplotypes from metagenomes and shows it accurately identifies mutation rate differences between core and accessory gene families in rumen microbiomes.